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That last image is bizarre. The quiche, cream and even the salad look like they've been given the trypophobia treatment. Which might even make sense, because t

by SamBam 1mo ago

That last image is bizarre. The quiche, cream and even the salad look like they've been given the trypophobia treatment. Which might even make sense, because there were always (still are?) those horrible ads in the chumbox area of news sites that used trypophobia and other creepy body-horror stuff to get you to click. [1] So maybe the hope is that you don't really look closely at the quiche, but some reptilian party of the brain gets oddly activated and drives you towards the restaurant? 1. https://medium.com/the-awl/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b7a070a2d https://medium.com/the-awl/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-c...

pingou 1mo ago
It doesn't look like a quiche but more like a cake to me, and the top would be torched meringue, not mold. Although it's probably some weird ai mix of quiche and cake.
- jihadjihad 1mo ago
  > probably some weird ai mix of quiche and cake Quike? Cache?
  - thatfoundergirl 1mo ago
    Cache sounds like a decent meal
    - decimalenough 1mo ago
      Well, it's hard to invalidate.
  - layer8 1mo ago
    cAIche
- thatfoundergirl 1mo ago
  Two week old cake can pass as a quiche i guess!
- rcymerys 1mo ago
  It was labeled as a quiche, I just cut the photo in an unfortunate way :-)
  - eichin 1mo ago
    There's a similar "horror burrito" circulating on bluesky and my first thought was "now we know how to produce images for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... " (Actually that was my second thought; my first was "just how much H.R. Giger is in the training data?")
- eichin 1mo ago
  Even with the label absent - you wouldn't serve cake with "tomatoes" and "salad", so that would be another hint of something being horribly wrong
hallgrim 1mo ago
The food “photography” I’ve noticed in our local area - and many have started putting up these AI images - all have a weird distribution of shapes to them, a strangely uniform rhythm of same-sized features with almost blue-noise spacing. Every texture looks unnatural in the shapes it presents as, similar to this picture.
dev_hugepages 1mo ago
This is a quirk of the last gpt image model (gpt-image-2). It put this sort of high frequency noise on all of the image especially if it's in a "drawn" style. There is often lots of other tells that this model in particular generated it. Image models somewhat watermarking the image in a way that's very easily identifiable by a human seems present in all the image models of the big labs, since DALL-E 3 on OpenAI's side and the first nano banana on Google's side. I have no idea what they did to reach this and why they don't try to fix it.
- BoredomIsFun 1mo ago
  Just use Ideogram. Locally.
BoredomIsFun 1mo ago
These kinds of images are disingenuous. Modern image generating models have way higher quality of output, and in most cases you wouldn't even know it is generated.
- thrance 1mo ago
  That's not what we're exposed to, though. I've seen AI-generated postcards, t-shirt decals, logos and wall murals in shops and restaurants. They don't use the "good" models, because why would they? If they AI-generated it, it's because they didn't care about the quality anyway.
  - BoredomIsFun 1mo ago
    > If they AI-generated it, it's because they didn't care about the quality anyway. No? There are far far more AI generated images you see daily, than the awful stuff from 2024 that you immediately discern as AI-generated. You could as well pass by somethimg like this (https://ideogram.ai/g/d6YzZ5XQQ56TU3Tc8eZw6w/0 https://ideogram.ai/g/d6YzZ5XQQ56TU3Tc8eZw6w/0) believing it is a genuine photo or human made art.
rohin15 1mo ago
It made me recoil honestly!
timnetworks 1mo ago
I never understand why I can get better results, with less thinking about it, than some of the Tier1 companies.. Modern diffusion models can easily render the image onto a white background, center it, crop it, relight it, but keep the same item, at no cost, or low cost. example: https://ordermerchants.com/static/img/clearshot/product-1.jpg https://ordermerchants.com/static/img/clearshot/product-1.jp...

by SamBam 1mo ago

pingou 1mo ago

It doesn't look like a quiche but more like a cake to me, and the top would be torched meringue, not mold. Although it's probably some weird ai mix of quiche and cake.

jihadjihad 1mo ago
> probably some weird ai mix of quiche and cake Quike? Cache?
- thatfoundergirl 1mo ago
  Cache sounds like a decent meal
  - decimalenough 1mo ago
    Well, it's hard to invalidate.
- layer8 1mo ago
  cAIche
thatfoundergirl 1mo ago
Two week old cake can pass as a quiche i guess!
rcymerys 1mo ago
It was labeled as a quiche, I just cut the photo in an unfortunate way :-)
- eichin 1mo ago
  There's a similar "horror burrito" circulating on bluesky and my first thought was "now we know how to produce images for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... " (Actually that was my second thought; my first was "just how much H.R. Giger is in the training data?")
eichin 1mo ago
Even with the label absent - you wouldn't serve cake with "tomatoes" and "salad", so that would be another hint of something being horribly wrong

hallgrim 1mo ago

The food “photography” I’ve noticed in our local area - and many have started putting up these AI images - all have a weird distribution of shapes to them, a strangely uniform rhythm of same-sized features with almost blue-noise spacing. Every texture looks unnatural in the shapes it presents as, similar to this picture.

dev_hugepages 1mo ago

This is a quirk of the last gpt image model (gpt-image-2). It put this sort of high frequency noise on all of the image especially if it's in a "drawn" style. There is often lots of other tells that this model in particular generated it. Image models somewhat watermarking the image in a way that's very easily identifiable by a human seems present in all the image models of the big labs, since DALL-E 3 on OpenAI's side and the first nano banana on Google's side. I have no idea what they did to reach this and why they don't try to fix it.

BoredomIsFun 1mo ago
Just use Ideogram. Locally.

BoredomIsFun 1mo ago

These kinds of images are disingenuous. Modern image generating models have way higher quality of output, and in most cases you wouldn't even know it is generated.

thrance 1mo ago
That's not what we're exposed to, though. I've seen AI-generated postcards, t-shirt decals, logos and wall murals in shops and restaurants. They don't use the "good" models, because why would they? If they AI-generated it, it's because they didn't care about the quality anyway.
- BoredomIsFun 1mo ago
  > If they AI-generated it, it's because they didn't care about the quality anyway. No? There are far far more AI generated images you see daily, than the awful stuff from 2024 that you immediately discern as AI-generated. You could as well pass by somethimg like this (https://ideogram.ai/g/d6YzZ5XQQ56TU3Tc8eZw6w/0 https://ideogram.ai/g/d6YzZ5XQQ56TU3Tc8eZw6w/0) believing it is a genuine photo or human made art.

rohin15 1mo ago

It made me recoil honestly!

timnetworks 1mo ago

I never understand why I can get better results, with less thinking about it, than some of the Tier1 companies.. Modern diffusion models can easily render the image onto a white background, center it, crop it, relight it, but keep the same item, at no cost, or low cost. example: https://ordermerchants.com/static/img/clearshot/product-1.jpg https://ordermerchants.com/static/img/clearshot/product-1.jp...