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> Said person does not give a shit about whether things are correct or could even work, as long as they look "somewhat plausible". Spot on, I think this every
by vemv 1y ago
> Said person does not give a shit about whether things are correct or could even work, as long as they look "somewhat plausible".
Spot on, I think this every time I see AI art on my Linkedin feed.
- pacifika 1y agoIsn’t this just the digital version of hand waving / guesswork? People not checking assumptions have long since been a leading cause of weak software delivery.
- Gigachad 1y agoI’ve become super sensitive to spotting it now. When I see a restaurant using AI food pictures I don’t want to eat there. Why would I want to do business with people who are so dishonest to lie about the basics?
- thrown-0825 1y agousing food pics as an example is hilarious, food photos in advertising have been "faked" for about as long as photography has existed
- Gigachad 1y agoSure, they went through a long process of dressing them up as nice as possible. But they were still just ideal versions of the thing you actually receive. While the AI food looks pretty much nothing like what the restaurant is actually making. And outside of mega chains like McDonalds, most restaurants used fully real images.
- thrown-0825 1y agoThis is provably false. There is a large industry based around faking food, you can watch some pretty interesting videos on the process and you will quickly find that they rarely use anything resembling the actual food you will be eating. Japan is an extreme example, but there they literally use wax models to advertise their food.
- Gigachad 1y agoThose fake food models are still made to look just like the actual meal. I don't know if you've looked at any of these AI food pictures but they look nothing like the end result. And they are also signalling low effort and low initial investment unlike commissioning custom models of ramen bowls.
- bmicraft 1y agoI've been to plenty of local joints where photos clearly a) weren't taken by them, and b) didn't at all match the food. Still delicious food for a good price, but the picture is more a vague idea of what it could look like if you payed 3x as much somewhere else. It's been that way for as long as I can remember.
- bevr1337 1y agoYes and no. Magazines, newspapers, highly profitable restaurants, and professional publications employ food photography. The local greasy spoon did not. Now instead of sloppy burgers and pizza pics, I get weird AI blobs of pepperoni. (Real example.) Dressing up a pizza so it photographs well is different than an AI generated pizza. Maybe I cannot perfectly articulate that, but I'm confident
- Gigachad 1y agoVery much agree. Traditional food photography is kind of just enhanced reality, better lighting, structurally placing and fixing everything in it's ideal position, substitutes for things that would melt under studio lights. While AI food is like some kind of fever dream alternate reality that has no connection to the thing you'll actually receive.