This is hilarious and it's killing me people are taking it literally
replySarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but...
replyOne of my locally owned fried rice places doodled a simple pencil cartoon of them cooking fried rice to satisfy their evil landlord and it has cascaded into a series of mildly unhinged pencil cartoon doodles every few days on Facebook. It is an incredibly refreshing break from the local food/eats FB groups being utterly flooded with identical looking slop posters and has earned my business several times. Also it's just... incredibly in-touch marketing in general.
replyI can't disagree more. A lot of shops in our city have done this and I actually miss the shitty photoshopped images that did not even look like the real life dish anyway. AI signs are way worse.
replyI thought that was parents point, that currently they're using so shitty AI generated logos, that even if we despise that as a concept, at least better models output slightly less sloppy shit. But re-reading it, I'm not sure that was the right initial reading.
replyI am wondering if in 2-3 years AI will be heads and shoulders above us in both images and text. Then will we continue to see the slop accusations? Maybe its slop is better than most of our work.
reply> Then will we continue to see the slop accusations?
replyIf it doesn't look like the food you're about to purchase, yes? Why is this even a question in this context.
Yes, even though fast food places would previously use every food photography trick in the book to make the food look good, there was at least some relation between the menu and what you actually get, which people just seem completely fine with dispensing because the affordances of image generators work against including product photography
reply(Have also heard about people - not just scammers/spam operations - using generated pictures and descriptions for dating profiles and real estate ads, and I cannot understand what outcome they expect when someone follows up and immediately realizes what's up)
"Here is a picture of the dish, make it look nicer and use that as a reference"
reply> "Here is a picture of the dish, make it look nicer and use that as a reference"
replyThat's not a function of improvement in models, though, which was the question. You could literally do that today, no need to wait for models in "2-3 years".
"Users will voluntarily prompt better to avoid misleading people" will be the "people can simply write memory safe C" of the late 2020s
reply“Stop calling it slop you guys, I’ll have you know I am even sloppier”
replyIt might be a sub-comment on a tweet that was fairly viral last week. Or it might be serious. We’ll never know.
replyIf they wanna loose customers...
replyNot OP but my guess is that they're already using bad AI images for their kebab business, and OP wants them to use better AI for their images (so they may actually lose fewer customers because the AI imagery isn't so awful)
replyThe normier the user the crazier the pics.
replyWhy do you care what your kebab shop uses for their menus? These people are trying to run a business. If this can allow them to clearly communicate prices in a well designed pleasant way, it's great. Why must they slave away in design and technology or pay someone to do it for them? I think it's great
replyIf I eat at a restaurant and that restaurant has images of their food, I want those to be “real images” of what they will bring me when I pay. Otherwise it’s misleading.
replyI don't think I've ever eaten at a restaurant with real images of their food, pre or post AI.
replyNot sure exactly what images we're talking about here, places above "medium-scale" typically don't have images on their menus at all, and mostly have real iamges on their Instagram and website, of course professionally taken and edited though.
replyI care, the same way I wont read your blog, if you use AI photos. Same mechanism.
replyIt would be an improvement, probably, because they are still using Dall.e 1 apparently.
replyLoose them on what?
replyloose? only if they don't cook it well
replyI see a lot of the slop posters in real life now and I hate them
replyI think every restaurant on Uber Eats in my area uses AI slop or, minimally, AI "enhanced" food pictures.
replyI see a ton of AI generated images and descriptions on DoorDash. I get the sense the restaurant is not doing it themselves, I’m not sure if they have any control over disabling it or perhaps they are opting in.
replyProbably some other type of ads '[..] in your area' will use this as well.
replyI still don't know if I hate them because they are visually slop, or that the businesses farmed out sign creation to the slop machine
replyI love them because while not perfect it’s a good way to filter out businesses that don’t have good taste.
replyAll of the above for me.
replyIf it was only the small shops doing it... companies that could easily hire ad designers use AI slop images full of errors.
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