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I'm starting to see ChatGPT generated business promotions along the side of the road more and more often and it saddens me.

I'd rather have something your daughter doodled on a piece of paper + the title of your company over some obvious AI slop.

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A lot of cheaper restaurants and bodegas in nyc use AI images to show what food they serve and a lot of them have this slightly grotesque quality thats very unappetizing. Almost like a nightmare/ acid trip filter.

Wow. Talk about the worst uses of AI -- the actual representative pictures of product you're selling. If false advertising law ever got an update, a ban on an AI depiction of one's product itself in an ad or other pre-sale imagery should be added.

Discussed here last month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005973

It’s wild because of how shockingly easy basic food photography is.

Make a plate, set it in front of a window, snap a picture.

I think AI is amazing, but equally amazing is people’s laziness and lack of taste when it comes to applying it.

I think there are already laws in a lot of places requiring food images whether photographs, illustrations, AI generated images, etc. not to materially mislead consumers about what they’re buying.

So people using AI for this might soon run into issues with hallucinated extra ingredients or exaggerated portion sizes.

Food companies have used glue or other substances in things like cereal ads (in place of milk) for decades. Unfortunate.

yeah they do it to make it look more appetizing in the photos

Quite the opposite of what is happening here.. they are going the cheap route and use AI instead of a human who knows how to make an appetizing menu.

It's been all over rural America now. Every single roadside sign I've seen now has been either fully AI-generated, or the logos are all following the same damn 'logo in a shield' that one of the services loves making everything it generates be.

It’s only obvious slop to you. Most people have never used gen AI and have no experience or skills detecting it.

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