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I think there is a big difference between using AI generated food pictures, vs. taking real pictures of your food and using AI to create a menu/poster. The for

by phil21 18d ago

I think there is a big difference between using AI generated food pictures, vs. taking real pictures of your food and using AI to create a menu/poster. The former is both weird, creepy most of the time, and false advertising. The latter is as you say - the state of the current status quo. I can tell that it's AI, but honestly it's just replacing low-effort human crud for low-effort AI crud. Doesn't bother me at all, it's actually a great use for the technology imo.

quietsegfault 18d ago
What about the pictures of Chinese food above the counter vs. the actual food you get? There has ALWAYS been a big difference between advertisements and menus and what the food really looks like.
- phil21 18d ago
  Funnily enough, I was thinking of exactly those photos when writing my comment. I never found them to be all that misrepresentative - that they took a photo from their family friend of their father taken 20 years ago for the same dish they are making me and have it on some faded menu board behind the counter is... honestly pretty close. It's the fake AI generated "shine" I guess that is the difference to me. Obviously totally made up, not real food, and made to look pretty. It's mostly the uncanny valley. Both are indeed false advertising, but the AI generated ones are so obviously made up and not real it's a little off putting to me. Wouldn't really stop me from ordering if I were already there, but it might make me order from their competitor if I were on Uber Eats or whatnot.
- fd45e 18d ago
  And that is true.. but guess what? We should be inventing technologies that DIMINISH and punish this behaviour. But we ain't. We are doing the exact opposite. Nice. The best we have is Google reviews lmao.
- sillyfluke 17d ago
  My usual Chinese spots have pretty terrible food pictures, seemingly taken as an afterthought with no effort given to make the food look more appetizing at all. So kind of the opposite of false advertising.
vidarh 18d ago
As long as it's visibly AI, I don't think it's meaningfully false advertising. The bigger problem with respect to false advertising will be when even the low-effort AI crud is plausible enough that people don't recognise it.

by phil21 18d ago

quietsegfault 18d ago

What about the pictures of Chinese food above the counter vs. the actual food you get? There has ALWAYS been a big difference between advertisements and menus and what the food really looks like.

phil21 18d ago
Funnily enough, I was thinking of exactly those photos when writing my comment. I never found them to be all that misrepresentative - that they took a photo from their family friend of their father taken 20 years ago for the same dish they are making me and have it on some faded menu board behind the counter is... honestly pretty close. It's the fake AI generated "shine" I guess that is the difference to me. Obviously totally made up, not real food, and made to look pretty. It's mostly the uncanny valley. Both are indeed false advertising, but the AI generated ones are so obviously made up and not real it's a little off putting to me. Wouldn't really stop me from ordering if I were already there, but it might make me order from their competitor if I were on Uber Eats or whatnot.
fd45e 18d ago
And that is true.. but guess what? We should be inventing technologies that DIMINISH and punish this behaviour. But we ain't. We are doing the exact opposite. Nice. The best we have is Google reviews lmao.
sillyfluke 17d ago
My usual Chinese spots have pretty terrible food pictures, seemingly taken as an afterthought with no effort given to make the food look more appetizing at all. So kind of the opposite of false advertising.

vidarh 18d ago

As long as it's visibly AI, I don't think it's meaningfully false advertising. The bigger problem with respect to false advertising will be when even the low-effort AI crud is plausible enough that people don't recognise it.