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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[–] 9 points 9 hours ago

I could get generating the layout, but the whole point of the pictures is that I want to see what your version of this dish looks like

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  • [–] 12 points 13 hours ago

    No pictures at all would be vastly preferable. I'd've walked out.

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  • [–] 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    and the manager/owner(?) who didn’t seem to care.

    The owner. That's the one who did it I bet anything. This is typical owner-type psychopathy. A manager would want customers at least. An owner thinks the money spawns in their bank account because they're "good at runnin buisness."

    And not a single one of these pieces of shit ever admits to generating it. Its always "Oh uh is it AI though? Looks pretty real. How can you tell it's AI? I'll take your for it but I don't see what the big deal is. It's the future though so we might as well get used to it."

    Come on "AI artists" and "prompt engineers". Why don't you take credit for your "legitimate" work?

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  • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago

    That shit looks so disgusting that it would ruin my appetite

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago

    Looks like plates of alien organs.

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  • [–] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Forget the visuals for a second and tell me how $17 for an omelette is anywhere near okay.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    That bacon is burned to a crisp.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    I genuinely don't understand how they always manage to generate the worst possible image. It takes effort to get such horrible results out of any modern VLM/image gen.

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  • [–] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    What, do you not flower cookie cutter your eggs and put stitch patterns on your pancakes? That's how you know it's made with love.

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  • [–] 16 points 19 hours ago

    I'm in Kenya at the moment and it seems nearly all restaurant menus are made with AI. It's awful and I keep asking if the food is real as the photos aren't.

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    Ha, no, I'd walk out.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago

    I hate this shit so much.

    "Here's what eggs might look like"

    Gee thanks

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  • [–] 11 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    WTF is "city ham"? Is that like "long pig"?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 18 hours ago* (3 children)

    City ham is a slab of pink, what you might call a ham steak.

    The alternative is Country ham, which is salt cured, and looks a bit like leather often with a round slice of the hambone.

    Based on my experience at restaurants, anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago
    [–] 9 points 19 hours ago

    why does the food look disgusting

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  • [–] 9 points 19 hours ago

    they look like plastic toy food lmao

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    At least it's not trypophobia triggering slop, I guess?

    https://sopuli.xyz/post/51140652

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    Redditor illness aside, who thought that looks good, or even consumable? Usually the shit just looks weird but you have to look closely, ans it's not that big. This is front and center and looks like a gross close-up from a ren and stimpy bit

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  • [–] 19 points 23 hours ago (22 children)

    Off topic I guess, but I was surprised that nobody is talking about the asterix: Eating undercooked food might make you sick. Like, yeah, that's your job to avoid? I'm assuming this is about runny egg yolks but still, is this considered normal in the US?

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago*

    Yeah, it's very common on menus in the U.S. because we're a bunch of litigious assholes and weird legal disclaimers disclaimers are sprinkled around our country like magic spells to ward off the lawyers representing narcissists.

    I have no idea if that little warning has ever actually been tested in court in a food-borne illness case to see if it works, though. Businesses can't always just waive customer safety liabilities away with finely-printed incantations.

    Also, it doesn't make sense to have the asterisk on stuff like the biscuits and gravy, only items where the customer picks the "doneness" like eggs or steak. WTF wouldn't be fully cooked in biscuits and gravy? And if they're going to do this stupid shit, it should also be on the "country ham breakfast" that comes with "two eggs any style," since it's on all the other egg items.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago

    Litigation heavy society + Governmental food safety guidelines.

    Every menu in the us that has options for even slightly pink burgers, eggs, ceviche, sushi, or anything else not cooked to federal food safety minimums has that disclaimer on the menu.

    We all know it, there's no reason for it other than perceived cheap lawsuit protection.

    Thing is, if the food was stored negligently that message won't stop them from being liable. And if the food was stored properly, the chances of contamination are pretty damned low.

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    [–] 9 points 20 hours ago

    Yummy, I love eating nauseatingly detailed geometrical patterns 😋

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    What exactly was wrong with doing a grocer shot of your food?

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  • [–] 9 points 15 hours ago

    My biggest problem with this is that it's a huge red flag that the business just doesn't give a shit and has no attention to detail. So where else are they cutting corners?

    You're a restaurant, and you can't be bothered to just... take a picture of your actual food? That really makes me question whether the food is any good at all, or if they have any kind of adherence to food safety practices. Because I highly doubt that, from the type of person who would think this menu is OK.

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  • [–] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    this is the fastest and cheapest way possible, and most people do not care. until any of these variable changes, ai slop stays.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    I feel people care. Maybe not because they are AI generated, exactly. But how many Karens are going to get their unstitched pancakes and complain? The pictures are there to show you what you are getting, that's it. And where I understand that people stretch the concept of "pictures of the food" - if the image is greatly different than the product you get... people don't like that.

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  • [–] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    The food looks like the kind of thing that would be used as a lure by a massive carnivorous slime mold shaped like a mom and pop restaurant.

    Weird things do grow in the hollers of Appalachia.

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  • [–] 172 points 1 day ago* (31 children)

    I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I swear, a swathe of the older population seems to have "diffusion blindness." They can glance at images like this and think its acceptable for their business, like something about their perception just softens the uncanny valley.

    Hence, Facebook, in its current state.

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