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Surprised to see no acknowledgement of how "AI Menu Slop" has become deeply associated with ChatGPT. Everywhere I go now I see places that blatantly used ChatG

Surprised to see no acknowledgement of how "AI Menu Slop" has become deeply associated with ChatGPT. Everywhere I go now I see places that blatantly used ChatGPT for their menus or posters and they all look the same. It feels almost existential to the service, I know its a bit of survivor bias but so many images you can tell immediately are ChatGPT vs other image providers, and I feel many people are sick of them.

mickeyp 18d ago
It's not like a lot of these small-time outfits used their own photography to begin with. They'd pick a kebab from a menu of professionally made kebab pictures the printer has in stock. Or worse, they'd take pics of their own plated food with a dead-centre point flash in a dark cupboard or something and you end up with awful-looking food, no matter how good.
- core_dumped 18d ago
  It's still more honest than generating virtual kebab.
  - infecto 18d ago
    Is it though? I don’t find using stock art to be any better myself.
    - breezybottom 18d ago
      Stock art food doesn't usually look unappetizing and bizarre.
      - infecto 18d ago
        Sounds like a great self-selection problem.
- shagie 18d ago
  I'm not sure if I'm working with ChatGPT Images 2.5 or 2.0 here... The original photo I took was at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_paradise_by_the_heatingelement_light/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_pa... - it's a cheeseburger meatloaf with potato wedges taken with a phone camera. And I was going for a consistent documentation approach for the photograph, not trying for menu proper. https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa05d33-3e6c-83ea-9e32-f1371c1ad663 https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa05d33-3e6c-83ea-9e32-f1371c1ad6... ( https://imgur.com/a/fPB5VKP https://imgur.com/a/fPB5VKP for just the image) I suspect that someone doing a menu could take a properly plated meal from the kitchen (rather than me photographing on top of my oven) and have it get redone for a good image for a menu without fundamentally changing what is being served.
ieie3366 18d ago
What if I told you.. the average person LIKES ai slop images and prefers them to "regular" ones. The same way the average person prefers McDonalds food to healthy food
sebzim4500 18d ago
I think quite a lot of people can distinguish between AI and real (maybe 30%?) but almost no one is worried about distinguishing between ChatGPT and other image generators
masswerk 18d ago
It's the great desemantification machine: want to look, read, sound, feel just like the median, without personal traits or individual expression? This is for you! (And people used to talk about communism and everything being same. Well, tech-broism actually achieved this.)

mickeyp 18d ago

It's not like a lot of these small-time outfits used their own photography to begin with. They'd pick a kebab from a menu of professionally made kebab pictures the printer has in stock. Or worse, they'd take pics of their own plated food with a dead-centre point flash in a dark cupboard or something and you end up with awful-looking food, no matter how good.

core_dumped 18d ago
It's still more honest than generating virtual kebab.
- infecto 18d ago
  Is it though? I don’t find using stock art to be any better myself.
  - breezybottom 18d ago
    Stock art food doesn't usually look unappetizing and bizarre.
    - infecto 18d ago
      Sounds like a great self-selection problem.
shagie 18d ago
I'm not sure if I'm working with ChatGPT Images 2.5 or 2.0 here... The original photo I took was at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_paradise_by_the_heatingelement_light/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_pa... - it's a cheeseburger meatloaf with potato wedges taken with a phone camera. And I was going for a consistent documentation approach for the photograph, not trying for menu proper. https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa05d33-3e6c-83ea-9e32-f1371c1ad663 https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa05d33-3e6c-83ea-9e32-f1371c1ad6... ( https://imgur.com/a/fPB5VKP https://imgur.com/a/fPB5VKP for just the image) I suspect that someone doing a menu could take a properly plated meal from the kitchen (rather than me photographing on top of my oven) and have it get redone for a good image for a menu without fundamentally changing what is being served.

ieie3366 18d ago

What if I told you.. the average person LIKES ai slop images and prefers them to "regular" ones. The same way the average person prefers McDonalds food to healthy food

sebzim4500 18d ago

I think quite a lot of people can distinguish between AI and real (maybe 30%?) but almost no one is worried about distinguishing between ChatGPT and other image generators

masswerk 18d ago

It's the great desemantification machine: want to look, read, sound, feel just like the median, without personal traits or individual expression? This is for you! (And people used to talk about communism and everything being same. Well, tech-broism actually achieved this.)