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Generated menu at a Mom&Pop restaurant made me physically ill (thelemmy.club)
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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.

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[–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Considering they explicitly commented that photo quality isn't important, how good professional photos of food are isn't relevant.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    Maybe i am blind but i dont think they explicitly said that.

    I just know that “traditionally” food industry does not make pictures themselves they hire a professional artist for doing so. That was just normal bussines. So they where never in the habbit of doing it themselves.

    While i never agreed with advertisment more fancy than the actual product. That is/was a career where people put real effort and artistic skill into. Its huge shame that its getting stolen by ai with literally 0 results.

    I wonder what pictures this menu had before ai.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Depends on the 'food industry'.

    Big chains, sure, they have photographers come in.

    The little chinese restauraunt near me, clearly they just snapped pictures of their food with smartphones and slapped them on the board. Their printed menu was just text. I suspect if this is a small restaurant, they probably just had text on menu, and thought AI could give them 'big restaurant' menu impression, but instead got horror show of crap. They probably could have provided some pictures and directed it to make a menu layout but do not generate images, but use these pictures.

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