Nah, it’s a testament to no matter what you do, some people would rather be miserable and “make a statement” than to just forget the damn ai art and go inside the damn restaurant.
Why doesn’t the owner just forget the AI AND TAKE A FUCKING PICTURE OF THE FOOD THEY’RE MAKING ???
I’ve been to plenty of restaurants THAT TAKE PHOTOS OF THEIR FOOD and it’s just as capable of being bad than if it was ai. Stay mad though, I’m sure it’ll change because of your anger.
Their artistic skills have nothing to do with their culinary skills.
Or marketing skills, or getting a feel for the room.
Can I pay with an AI picture of a credit card?
Then don’t put up ai art. Just put up a text menu.
Restaurants using AI for food menu is a sign of bad quality.
It’s like when I go to vendor halls at conventions and half the vendors are repackaged aliexpress/temu items
It’s like when I go to
vendor halls at conventions and half the vendorsany store that’s not a mega-department store all the items are repackaged aliexpress/temu itemsftfy
TBH, the US has been middle-manning economically depressed labor for cheap goods for decades. It just turns out that China is way better at it than we are.
Alibaba/express just made it a marketplace where companies could do it with zero friction.
By people not supporting businesses who use AI instead of creating jobs for humans? No I’m not bothered by that at all.
it’s a vicious circle.
It’s worse when their menu pictures have the glitch where it makes things look like triptaphobia? I forget how it’s spelled and I’m not going to look it up for obvious reasons…
That’s what you get when you use ai to upscale ai images.
It’s like they all use one model that can’t figure out french fries, hash browns, or lettuce.
This place has a $35 crab cake sandwich on the menu and can’t manage to take a picture of the fucking thing.
Oh yeah like it generates the images all roughly textured? I think it’s like a reaction to generated images usually looking too smooth, but they just ended up deep frying them in uncanny.
Trypophobia? Went to a restaurant that had ai menu pictures that looked like everything was made of bugs. They looked absolutely disgusting. At that point it wasn’t even about not liking ai, i simply lost my apetite looking at it.
That’s the one. Same reaction. They’re lucky I didn’t puke lol
Recently saw an AI photobooth. No one was using it, they were taking their own pictures instead.
Why the fuck would I pay you to stick a prompt in when I could do it myself if I really wanted an AI generated picture? You may have cut some of your costs, but now your final product has no value to it.
That’s the thing that really gets me about these folks.
You slop up something for yourself and you are happy with it, ok.
But then you expect me to engage/pay for your zero-effort AI output that I could have just gotten myself direct from the same place you did? Why?
What’s an AI photobooth? I’m just imagining a booth where you have your photo taken and it prints a totally unrelated AI-generated photo. Like, you go for a passport photo and get a picture of Marie Curie and the Hulk windsurfing on the Moon.
Your imagination of it is pretty spot on tbh
Because in addition to already running your own business, you should also be a ad exec and a artist.
Listen fuck the ai industry and what its doing, but can we fuck off with hating on the people who use it for what its worth right now?
Edit, to be clear, fuck off and suck a dick to everyone who replied to me.
No, we cant. I would rather see just plain times new roman text than that slop. Especially if its food related
If you’re too lazy to photograph the food you produce day in and day out, I don’t wanna find out where else you’ll cut corners. It doesn’t take much effort to pop a plate on a cutting board or white poster board and snap a shot with your phone.
Because in addition to already running your own business, you should also be a ad exec and a artist.
That’s what running your own business is. You do as much as possible by yourself so you don’t have to share the profits. What would these people have done before AI? They would have had to figure it out. And their solution—whatever it was—would have been more tasteful than AI slop.
If they were using it for what it’s good at, we wouldn’t be upset.
This is french fries and coleslaw and crab cake sando with lettuce.
A business can log into the free version of Canva, type in what they want and come out with 90 different templates for their marketing and flyers.
The slop poster isn’t really replacing an ‘ad exec’, so it’s about ‘artist’.
A common scenario people have posted is when they GenAI up some food pictures. Given they could have snapped pictures of the food they cook with a cell phone pretty much instantly, this particularly doesn’t inspire confidence in their food.
Related is if they GenAI up their menu, then it can get confusing/weird as the content sometimes doesn’t quite match what the restauraunt actually does. Which makes me realize how lazy they are about accuracy.
The other case I’ve seen is them using image gen to put out a ‘mascot’ character. I suppose this is less critically on point, but compared to someone who skipped the ‘mascot’ gimmick altogether or someone who at least charmingly made an attempt, it’s a bit of a turn-off.
There’s a shop near me that has one of those sandwich board signs on the sidewalk with some sort of “fuck the billionaires, support small businesses” messaging, but for some idiotic reason, it has the faces of those billionaires on it, so every time I see it, I just get angry.
Supporting a small business with an AI Poster is much better than supporting a big corporation
Why? Isn’t the small business supporting a big AI corporation? So a big corporation is getting supported either way?
Small businesses aren’t inherently cool and good, many of them would prefer to be large corporations, they just don’t know how to get there.
Creating an AI Poster might literally just be one month of some $5 AI sub or a free trial. There’s no way to verify how much they’re actually supporting the AI Company.
And while your second point is valid, if you really cared about supporting local you’d simply do some research on which local businesses are running with a community-centric approach. Which ones are run by decent people. Etc. That will likely but not definitely exclude businesses that use AI anyway.
I’d also just rather support a local shithead than a billionaire shithead 🤷
If they generate AI slop, they’re supporting the big corporations.
You can get an AI Poster created for negligible amount of money. Maybe even a free trial.
Unless you’ve verified somehow that that company uses AI in abundance and not just a few posters, you’re just making assumptions.
If they use AI for a few posters, where’s the guarantee that they will actually put effort into their main job? The kind of person that cheaps out by using AI is not the one I want to be paying.
Yeah so small business without AI slop is clearly better, it’s just that small business with AI slop still supports big business less than you supporting big business directly.
Does it, though? Small business still has more money to throw to corporations than individual people.
A small business with an AI poster is still better than a big business with an AI poster.
And you czn be sure those big businesses are using way more AI
Yes, getting stabbed in the arm is better than getting stabbed in the throat. Doesn’t mean I should go and get stabbed in the arm.
My reasoning was that when you buy from a big business, then 100% of what you spend goes there, while less than 100% of your spending go to big business if you buy from a small business that supports big businesses itself.
It doesn’t make sense to compare the total amount a small business contributes to a big business with the total amount an individual person contributes, unless you have some further factors you think I have failed to take into account.
Why wouldn’t it make sense? If I want to minimize the amount of support corporate LLMs get, it absolutely makes sense to stop endorsing other businesses that use it.
The original claim I made was that supporting small business is better than directly supporting big businesses. You are 100% right about minimising the amount corporate LLMs get, it’s just that your responding to my comparison of small business vs big business. What you want to do is to support neither of them, so I wouldn’t really spend more time analysing what I said since I don’t think it’s relevant to you.
Yes, I don’t really support this “lesser evil” type argument, since both options in the end proliferate corporate slop. If a business can’t exist without using corporate LLMs, it shouldn’t exist.
I hate even more that I get there and they tell me “you know you can get it cheaper on Amazon” or “we no longer stock it but you can get it on Amazon”. Bud, I can get every single thing in your store on Amazon and yes, it is often cheaper but I am trying to keep local stores and local jobs alive.
This happened to me a few weeks ago when I was looking through thrift shops to put together a Halloween costume. I went looking store to store for overalls, asked the employees if they had any suggestions. The elderly ladies had legit suggestions (that simply didn’t work out for me), but the young staff just went, “Try Amazon?”
The sad truth is, the youngin’s never lived in a world without Amazon. They don’t know the local stores like the older folks do. Perhaps they’ve never gone from thrift store to thrift store looking for treasures (even if they work in a thrift store.) It’s possible the idea of “avoiding Amazon” has never occurred to them.
employees justifiably hate their employers
and small businesses typically abuse their employees far worse than mega corps which is saying something in a world of Walmarts and Amazon’s
the sweet spot is a company that’s small enough to maintain a culture and the owners still have a vision but big enough they have to follow the rules pay taxes and have an hr department
of course there is no ethical consumption or production under capitalism but I didn’t create this world just suffering along with everyone else
Sweet spot is shops that require staff with some level of skills or knowledge which makes them a bit more difficult to replace.
Surely, these small business owners won’t throw a fit when consumers choose Amazon over their shop. After all, it’s cheaper and more convenient, right?
If I see AI posters, menus, or signage, I don’t spend money. Period.
Same here
