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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
At a small restaurant in Tennessee, USA.
I don't like that they asked an LLM to graphic design the entire menu, but why in the name of robot jesus did they look at the result and say "great. Love it. Print 100 copies."
The food pictures made me physically ill. They're really upsetting! I told the Waitress, who agreed that the pics were awful, and the manager/owner(?) who didn't seem to care.
There are LLM inconsistencies all over, too, like icons changing from page to page.
Ewww, just ewwww.
It's only a handful of photos. They could have just stolen good ones off the web instead.
Here's the online version, it's different, but same crap.
This makes it worse, because they have some actual photos of their food on there. So at some point they had pictures taken of their food, but they opted for the AI abominations instead. Gross.
Thanks!
I think that picture of the French toast (?) gave me trypophobia
I'd be out. If I got some deconstructed 3 layer eggs with raw yolks on top, or if they put blueberries and unmelted cheese on a sausage or bacon omelette then that is a culinary crime!
I might not even go to another place. I might just lose my appetite for the next few hours. But I definitely wouldn't be eating there if this is how they want their food to be perceived.
Fucking lazy.
I've always wanted to try bulbous egg patty with a side of star anise!
I wonder if they hired an illustrator and got conned.
Ah yes the menu on the USS Lincoln.
There's a place that is opening in six months locally, well might not be anymore. They did promotions on reddit with everything llm generated. Like how do you have pictures of a bunch of people in your shitty restaurant and chefs and food items? They got a circle jerk of hate especially since they had two posts on the front page of a sub that had maybe a few hundred people.
This place I recently discovered has some of the best fried chicken I've ever had and they have AI pics in their menu. Their actual food already looks amazing. Wtf.
order 1 of everything... when it arrives looking like not all food and not the images, just walk out.
The more I zoomed in, the worse it got. Do they not see how awful it is? Or does not having to pay a designer make them not care what it looks like beyond "close enough"?
I've been seeing similar things in local non-corporate bars/restaurants.
You're looking at the future of small business, right there..
Count all the (paid) humans that one single AI took out of the loop to generate this stupid menu. It's an offer that small biz cannot refuse..
Margins are razor thin in the restaurant biz as it is, and always have been. Labor is their biggest cost which is why tipping culture exists- to offload some of the burden of paying wages from the employer's back.
To use AI for menus or book keeping is a total no-brainer. Small businesses of all kinds are going to use the holy fuck out of AI as soon as they can figure out how. This is the future. .