qr first opens intagram which I don't have the app or an account then in the bio there's a link for menu. We are living in the future
I'd complain to the manager and walk out fr
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Instragram is a no-go for me. Websites have never been cheaper to build and as a business, you can afford it. If you really want to pinch pennies, use something that everyone can get to like a google doc or .pdf somewhere.
That said, having waited tables before, not having a print menu is a massive hygiene win. The wait staff are supposed to wipe those down after their shift, but I guarantee that's not always happening.
why do they have only a few selected styles? weren't they trained on basically every style ever?
Yeah I just went to a restaurant and only QR, no physical menu. Crazy, I hate it.
When I can't tell I just can't tell, but does this overly smooth not turn off regular people? Like it's so disgustingly uncanny that it would turn me off my fries (and I love fries)
For aesthetic reasons, I deeply dislike the style. It's indeed uncanny, and must be an average of a few other dominant art styles, yet doesn't directly resemble anything else. Even the exact font-face that tends to get used is hard to pin down.
And that's when I realized that I'm thankful that this current crop of models generates slop that looks like this. It has unintentionally hatched a style that is immediately recognizable as AI generated.
Sometimes I think about how many people in my school year growing up were complete fucking morons, and remember that they didn't stop existing after graduation.
I know a lot of people who know nothing about AI and would consider this a "cute family." It's a nightmare scenario because we could be flooded by those pictures in a few years.
In a few years? Approximately 1% of the posters I see for local events are not AI generated... We're already flooded
I'm starting to realize how little people know about making art, and how little they think about the art and graphic design they see in the world.
Like even just looking at cereal boxes I think about how artists on the corporate payroll designed the layout and placed all the elements and I wonder if they started from a flat image and projected it onto a box or if they imagined the box first in their imagination and then thought about how it would be viewed from different angles, especially with regard to shelving...
Anyway I happen to know 3 designers, 2 of whom still work for corpo clients. I'm not a fan of their clients usually, but it's made me realize that there are real people making real artistic decisions behind almost everything you see. Well, at least there used to be. There's a bit less of that now thanks to the latest thing.
Tbf even knowing about A"I" it can be incredibly hard to tell apart some of the generated slop from things created by real artists. I even have some friends who draw themselves from time to time (so no full-time artists) who fell for some generated crap, we're still unsure if a human went over those cases or if there were simply so many pixelheaps created that one got close enough...
This looks particularly sloppy, though.
I guess you only gain an eye for that sort of thing once you see enough of it.
GenAi is trained on actual artwork which is why it resembles actual artwork at a glance. It averages out all the nuance and details that make images and videos artistic.
That is how we get mockery of reality like the dad's long ass right arm in the post image so often.
AI artwork aside, if I went to a restaurant and was presented a QR code that sent me to Instagram or any other similar site, just to see the food options, I would simply just leave and find another place to eat.
That said, seeing the AI artwork I would probably do the same if it’s a new restaurant. One that I would have been to previously will come down to how good the food was last time.
"You don't have a menu so I'm out"
"What do you mean the requirement to view your menu is to create an account for a platform that gobbles up all my personal data to use it against me? Sounds like you should be paying me to eat here"
100%. Exactly what I would be saying
I'd certainly lean into my old man status and demand a paper menu. They must have them. Phone batteries die, people don't bring their phones, etc. Or, do they really turn away customers who don't have access to the stupid online menu?
I don't use instagram either, and I certainly would not install an app just to look at a damn menu. I'd already be expecting to pay through the nose for middling quality food. I'm not going to jump through hoops to order it.
(Add this to the list of reasons I don't actually eat out anymore.)
QR codes and Instagram aren't really AI. Where does AI enter the picture?
forgot to put pic
Ah, yes. The photo makes a huge difference.
If I ever walk into a restaurant and the menu is a QR code, I'm going somewhere else.
But this isn't the community for this.
I considered it but I wasn't alone
the qr code menu is a popular thing these days but every time I have used it, it takes you to the buisnesses web page where they either have the info instantly available or its a PDF. Typically they have a paper copy in cases where someone wants one. Its a popular trend since covid.
Embrace it people, its not the end of anything.
The lack of a real menu and handing you a piece of paper with a QR and a bunch of AI shit, is ugly and I would honestly think twice about what the food quality is like there