The average person won’t care. We are the stupid ones, thinking unique human touch is a selling point for average consumers.
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What is much more dangerous is not the ai slop we can see or recognise, but how easy it is to pull off good artwork using theft + ai. You are now seeing on a massive scale people taking images of other original artists, usually small unknown artists and then feeding that image through and prompting on top of that. Then claiming it as your own. I now fully realise I cannot trust anything without further looking into someone and their methods.
I dunno what to think. I assume Lemmy will either throw the worst at me or blindly give me praise.
I was talking with a guy today, told me my designs were "awful". To be fair, at the time he didn't know the designs he was critiquing were my handiwork and there were extenuating circumstances such that the designs were by committee so I did some things that no man should ever do or see or be told to do ... it was only because I had to.
Long story short, he starts talking about his designs, seemed to be looking for praise. He pulled out his phone to show me and ya'll ... they were AI. I even asked, did you use AI for that, and he was like "Obviously". Yes, of course, obviously. That's why I asked.
Using AI to sell a product is false advertising.
Fake food on commercials and menus are another example, it's everywhere in the USA because our laws are written by McDonald's ^tm^ and other political "donors".
The problem is that they’ve always been false advertising. They’re never punished for it. They’ve been showing massive, fresh burgers for decades in ads, and the real product looks nothing like that. It long predates the AI slop era we find ourselves in.
I think there are laws restricting fake food in ads, at least on TV. Like you can't use glue to represent mayo or stuff like that
Not if you're selling whole burgers, but the "set dressings" are allowed to be fake.
You can use fake pancakes to advertise a syrup, and fake syrup to advertise pancakes. McD's can't use fake mayo on pictures of burgers, but you can use it in the "serving suggestion" picture if you're selling frozen burger patties.
Also, even when it is real there can be trickery involved, like using the correct portion size but moving all the ingredients to one side of the sandwich to make it look like there's more than there is.
Wait this is news to me. I’ve heard for ice cream they used mashed potatoes. Do they make an exception for things that would melt under studio lighting?
you go to the fair or a street fest and 98% of stands have AI generated pictures of food... like idk what you're advertising but it's not whatever you're gonna sell me so why would i take my chances?
On aliexpress, it says that the pic and description are AI generated, so they're not responsible for the product. hmmm.
My local bar in a small rural village is currently advertising an event with crappy AI posters. I can't fault them, since "everyone" is doing it, but it's awfal taste. The alternative would've been a chalkboard on the curb.
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