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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Food pictures are supposed to represent the food you offer. An AI image isn't the food the customer will be getting. It's straight up dishonest, and when you put it in the front window, you've lied to your customer before they've even walked in the door. Not a good start.

I've owned restaurants before, and I've always fought with partners and investors about having photos of the food on the walls. It never looks like the actual product, and it only causes customers to do comparisons, and in most cases, the actual product will look worse. You don't want your customers looking at perfectly good food, and thinking it's shitty because it doesn't look like the perfectly photographed product shot on the wall.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If one takes an unaltered photograph of actual food, it also will look disgusting, because what we have in our brain as picture of food is idealized. One can easily try and make a photo of one'd favourite dish before eating, and print it out.

[–] ZERONOVABLOSSOM@sh.itjust.works 82 points 3 days ago (2 children)

She was frustrated. AJ was disheartened. “I want people to come to our restaurant, but, like, why is this such a big deal that it influences people on such intense level,” Lyndsey Lozano said. “Like, is it really that horrific that you have to act on such a feeling?”

They’ve really catered AI slop to the mindless masses eh? Not even an iota of an idea of why people could possibly hate the usage of AI this intensely. Smh.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (13 children)

It's kinda interesting tho.

Putting images from google or another restaurant is obviously wrong because it makes a misleading menu, they know it's wrong because they aren't trying that, but they also think same act is totally fine if they simply add AI.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

We don’t know that’s their reasoning though, maybe they were too lazy to do that

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The AI food on the poster looks absolutely horrifying, especially that "slaw" and "pulled pork". Why would anyone think people would find that appetizing or draw anyone inside? Even if it didn't look fake like plastic toy food, people want to see photos of the actual food you are selling, not a bizarre "concept" of the food. Huge mistake but the fact that they still don't understand why people reacted negatively is not a good sign for their business.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 days ago

They got some company to do this. AI generated and no one with artistic training to vet it before delivery.

Stellantis did the same thing with AI generated ads for RAM trucks that generated images of Toyota trucks, US flag with 40 stars, which may be accurate in a few years.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

AI generated food imagery looks so unappealing, disgusting even

[–] ebber@europe.pub 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The crust of the bread looks like snakeskin

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That weird texture is on everything

[–] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Jeez... like even if the AI slop wasn't a big invasive problem, I don't know how anyone thought this was a good idea. Seeing the picture of that pulled pork (or really any of the others) would have made me go "NOPE" if I thought that's what the food looked like.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That didn't look so bad lo-res, but up close it does look pretty freakish!

The breads look like they have lizard skin.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Especially that pulled pork with slaw. I wouldn't get near that thing if it were real.

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[–] potter2010@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago

That was my thought too. Low res some things looked a bit off, but high res is a mixture of gross and creepy.

As the owner, how would you see that and think that it'd make people come in to eat?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

the pulled pork has 6 fingers.

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It’s so interesting that the people who love this shit and embrace it wholeheartedly don’t understand why it’s so upsetting. I mean this example in particular, good god.

I wish we had more discussion on here where we put our frustration aside and actually interrogate what the disconnect is, because I can’t place it for the life of me. Intelligent people fall into this, people who had good taste too. I don’t understand

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lol there's just a branch of Rosemary on that.

That would be awful

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rosemary is my favorite herb, but if I saw that photo, I might think it looks like a decent sandwich, but I definitely wouldn't want a woody branch of rosemary as a topping. That would make me NOT order it.

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[–] msfroh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

It doesn't even look like rosemary. Rosemary comes off from the branch as a "pointy" leaf (like a wide pine needle). That looks like rosemary with thyme growing out of the tip of each leaf.

[–] RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 days ago

Oh GOD.

I haven't had my appetite ruined that quickly in a very long time

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Isn't that illegal, as in there are rules around food advertisements and the food must be "real" to some extent.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Okay, so what authority is going to come into the shop and close it down, or arrest somebody for it?

Absolutely nobody, that's who.

In Quebec, they have a law that the French verbage on a sign has to be at least twice the size of anything in English, and they have authorities who walk around with a ruler, and literally measure the lettering on signs, and issuing tickets.

That's NEVER going to happen in America.

America buries a lettuce contamination to protect private equity. Menus aren't even on the radar.

Odd shout-out to Taco Bell for stepping up to the role of US FDA/USDA in 2026.

Perhaps the 3 seashells movie was spot on the whole time.

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[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 43 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The poster was meant to be temporary, she said, as they’ve been busy caring for their three kids — all under the age of 5 — while opening the restaurant. They didn’t even have a sign yet.

OK, I get it, but you're still cooking the food. How hard is it to snap a few photos with a smartphone camera?

For now, they’ve strung LED lights in the window and stuck their pastry display in the middle for all to see Lyndsey’s homemade treats.

Now see that's what they should have done in the first place.

After reading the entire article, they seem like OK people who made a bad decision. Hopefully things work out.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The temporary shit is always the excuse when they receive backlash over it.

They’re just full of shit and hoped they’d get away with it.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (4 children)

How difficult is it to snap an actual pic of the food you make???

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They hadn’t made any food, and it doesn’t sound like they ever made this food. They hired chefs after they opened to make smash burgers… fml like if they even had any idea what food was this wouldn’t have happened.

They wanted to open a business, they probably just asked an LLM for a [target audienece] selection of foods and that was it. Probably a deserved indictment

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Oh good Lord, those images looked creepy as hell. The pulled pork looked like it was covered with multi-colored maggots.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

We all hate AI, why is that so hard for people to understand? Don't use it, stop using it. If it's not for a niche scientific study for the betterment of mankind, then fucking do it yourself.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 3 days ago

She was frustrated. AJ was disheartened. “I want people to come to our restaurant, but, like, why is this such a big deal that it influences people on such intense level,” Lyndsey Lozano said. “Like, is it really that horrific that you have to act on such a feeling?”

Yeah. Don't use the hell-lie machine. Easy.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps the sudden loss of a neighborhood staple — Citrus Club was open for decades and frequented for its cheap noodles and creative cocktails — made it hard to win favor with the tight-knit community.

Really? That's the author's take on why people might not like the use of AI?

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

I can see the connection if you judge it as a leap from a human, down to earth restaurant to the souless, AI driven slop factory that this new restaurant seemed to want to brand itself as.

Its like if you had a really good friend you haven't talked to for a few years and then randomly find out they are now a MAGA tech bro.

[–] Dequei@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

There are AI menus everywhere in Spain. I fucking hate them. Nobody cares :(

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

The level of delusion in this owner is beyond belief, let this be a reminder that most people in business have no fucking clue what they're doing.

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