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Generated menu at a Mom&Pop restaurant made me physically ill (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 3 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

There are business owners who greenlight even this crapola thinking the generated content is good enough, or because they want to get into the AI bandwagon because it's so goddamn cheap to them, so that they don't have to pay a professional photographer, a layout artist and a printing press just for a set of menus. All they care about is the results, cut to the chase, and that's instant gratification.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    If you want to be cheap, just don't show the food. That's what the penny pinchers used to do before the advent of clip art; print out a bare list of meals on the cheapest colored paper they could find.

    If they were feeling really fancy, they'd laminate it and be uncomfortably insistent about getting it back.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Sure, they can do either one of these, but where I live, business owners are very vain, have little appreciation of art, but want to be seen as "sophisticated"; they love LLM immediacy, it's almost magic to them, because they don't have to come visit a print shop, tell what they want, then come back and be presented three different layout samples to choose from before final production.

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