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I don’t think that was said in the game. This guy are sick.

I don't think it helps that, even if people don't know the ad is AI... they're still going to know that it looks ugly and cheap and gross. The signature look of AI is the modern equivalent of Papyrus font of ClipArt, but without the folksy charm.

New cafe opened near me with AI art of weird drippy burgers and soapy lattes. Owner stands around inside with his arms crossed looking across his empty dining room, confused and angry.

We need to make ANY use of gen AI slop the social equivalent of shitting you pants and eating it. Levels of execration that make a medieval banishment look like a cuddle party.

AI? No way 👋

I was supposed to eat at a restaurant during vacation. The menu was ai slop. We ordered a couple of symbolic starters (cus no other restaurant in the area) and left. We were otherwise planning on eating full dinners there for at least two evenings. Ai slop menu killed that.

love to get bakery recs for S*weets from a seven-fingered hand

oh they're absolutely *supposed to* be jalapeños, they just absolutely are not. they are weird lime slices instead because what does an LLM know about fruit

literal horrors

Yeah but they have no cneese.

Who looked at this and thought “Hell yeah, that looks so good, I’d eat that.” Food photos aren’t exactly a complicated brief. Tricky to get right but the end goal is salivation. This photo makes me want to never eat again.

It unironically looks like "slop"

Well, at least there's no cneese.

Are those Jason Voorhees mushrooms???

No cneese

I don’t ever want to eat again

We need to pass those Japanese laws about food looking as advertised

I threw up a little bit in my mouth seeing this...

Yet that blorp could only be described as cneese, which sounds much more like someone sneezed into the, uh... Chicken thing?

I imagine if you were in Hell you could be served something called "the original sinner" that looks like this. So if they were trying to invoke horrors beyond the flesh, good job.

uGH. It's bad enough when businesses use ai images in their ads, but ai images of FOOD?? In their actual MENU?? Lifetime internet ban. Something about genAI just looks so repulsive. The opposite of what a food business should want a potential customer to feel.

imagine eating jalapeños that look like trivial pursuit pies 🥴🫠

What a crime to make the great chicken schnitzel look so horrifying!

The ‘cheese’ looks contagious.

Thanks, there goes my appetite

No cneese.

... why do the mushrooms have eyes 😱

chicken lovecraftagiana

Help! 😱 My Dinner Has Smallpox. 😱

This is what Circe fed those guys to turn them into pigs, it’s revolting

assume a perfectly spherical chicken

So here’s the thing. I don’t care if they use AI. Many of you apparently do. How about we all try to stop the fascist white nationalists ruling our country and worry about the robot takeover later. Good plan? Great! See you at the voting booth.

Businesses can literally take pictures of their food with a phone. They don’t need ai…

Oh, this is driving awareness alright…

Even if everyone was as amoral as you and didn't care about encouraging AI, guess what? You'll still go out of business because unemployed people can't patronise your business.

If you won't support small businesses to do your graphics why the fuck should anyone care if your "business" dies or not? Taste your own medicine bitch.

Businesses sure can and do make decisions. Fortunately, so do customers. Life is hard, and there are things you can do to either make it harder or easier, but business expenses are deductible if you are legit. And you can support Sam Altman or a person who spent years building a skill.

Spot on.

huh? It's their choice to use AI, and my choice not to like it, and walk away. But maybe there are more people who like the slop, they'll find out

if a business has an ugly genai poster i just won't spend my money there. same with the sudden influx of genai thumbnails on youtube. i just won't watch. I went to berlin pride and there were so many foodstalls that had genai menus and posters. It made deciding where to eat from pretty easy

That would drive me out of even trying them.

There was a poster to make a neighborhood produce exchange group bc a lot of people have little gardens here, and I was pretty interested but horrified to see the picture was AI. If they'd used a stock image of a tomato or a farmers market I would have hit them up lol

Take your slop to Twitter, you half wit! No one asked for your clanker!

I bought a magazine that are focusing on spiritualism and at least 2 articles had AI generated pictures...im never buying that mag again.

0.9 Likes for the MooAca Eobery? Seems fair

I don't think it's a good idea to promote articles about AI with AI-generated images either? Not a good look for your brand

Notice that the black women has normal hands. Presumably because she was born to a human mother rather than manufactured at a Nazi clone factory.

Hey honey, want to go out for a bite and a coffee at... hey, what was the name of that new place, something like the "Delicious Rape" bakery?

A good chunk of the food booths at my state fair were using AI slop for their food pictures. It actually grossed me out and I avoided their food like the plague.

I saw the ai slop picture you are using for the thumbnail here and almost reflexively blocked your account on sight.

Yes if I see it online it's an instant block, don't care the source

Gotta love the deliciouly cookie

Unsurprisingly customers can sniff out a business that doesn't give a shit about quality when the first thing they see is a dogshit ad or sign made by ai.

🤮

Yep, fuck AI. I don't trust any person or any company that uses it. Always support REAL HUMAN ARTISTS!

They never even look good, they look like John Carpenter’s The Menu

I mean, it's a bakery. Literally take a picture of the baked goods in the case. That's it. If your product looks good, you'll get business. Fat, dairy, and carbs practically sell themselves.

I wouldn’t care so much but every ai ad looks like something I’ve seen while on ketamine

for me it also shows owner will cut corners on everything so I don't expect them using high quality materials / ingredients etc.

Ew AI

Quit my last job because my boss insisted on using it on everything. He would spend a half hour getting AI to write a paragraph for him because he sucked at writing.

Yup. Some cheap boneheads think it’s better than human marketing. AI writing is verbose, bland, soulless dreck, often incorrect and utterly lacking in insight.

Ai is such CRAP when it comes to advertising for Foodie places. There are tons of talented Graphic arts people out there that don’t use Ai, would love to get the work!!! I’m a retired Graphics and Printing person. I’m glad I don’t deal with that Ai shit

Companies will say "support local businesses" then use a free plagiarised advert instead of paying an artist. I guarantee there will be people in their local community who'd happily create a proper advert for reasonable money and who would be grateful for the work.

Nothing says you care less about your customers than slop. bsky.app/profile/afte...

Yikes. They might think those pictures look absolutely stunning. It's confusing as hell but a possibility.

And that hand holding the older model iPhone with “Meta Ads” has at least seven fingers

TRUE! Just shopped for a glazier. I chose the one not using A I.

💯%

It's true, if i see ai i avoid the business. Doesn't matter what kinda business, or even if i was planning on buying from it. If i see ai i know all i need to know about the business so i turn the other way.

I just saw a YT ad where the VO said "and it comes with a three-zero day money back guarantee"... You can't even review your ad before publishing it? And you think people are gonna buy something from you?

It’s funny because it’s true

Me when ai bros

Use of AI generated material should be an automatic blacklist, not only creating a labor embargo against them, but letting it be known to the public that they did something that ensured artists will not work with them. Said guilds should share lists with networked guilds.

Someone keeps advertising their computer repair business on Craigslist with AI generated images, and I can only assume they’ve outsourced all the troubleshooting to AI as well. If they can’t even proofread the AI, I have no faith in them fixing anything complex. bsky.app/profile/lusr...

Someone should carry a sharpie to mark these as fake.

It looks like an acid trip to me, and honestly, it’s not far different. Our brains parse visual noise in a similar way to computers parsing gaussian noise.

Everything has too much strange texture 😭 I don't like it

that parody is so spot on

On the contrary. I'd like to meet that quartet of youthful coffee cup fondlers and personal space non-respecters, and I can't wait to visit Moofica Eobery! Or Duees Surreneft Bakery. Whatever. If Trnndny Darcod likes it, that's good enough for me!

1. the guy second from left would be spilling his coffee 2. none of them are eating anyway

Yeah, the chai place I used to go to replaced all their better signs with AI ones, AND they have a guy warbling on the accoustic guitar blocking the entrance every weekend now. They must've been mad they had too many customers and decided to make some serious adjustments

Record store near me was posting AI crap on FB. They got called out on it, but the owner doubled down and even attacked those that called him out. I've noticed he hasn't posted much AI stuff lately, but the damage is done. I've dropped some serious cash in the past but won't return.

Come to think of it, I think it was the first AI ad I saw in the wild. and it SUCKED. "Cool, arcade stuff... but why are the controls so messed up?"

Im gonna assume that if you choose AI art over photographs of your food, that you're probably trying to hide how much your food sucks and I do not want to spend money to find out.

It’s rare that I agree with every single word in an article, but here we are. So well written. AI could never!

And podcasts. I watch a podcast I enjoy very much, but they use Ai images to highlight a point. I hate Ai.

it does suck when I see small shops doing it, like burger joints or street food vendors, it's funny that AI makes me wish they'd have just painted the name of their shop with cheap paint and crappy handwritting, I'd appreciate than AI shit.

The bakery is called sweet surrender because the only argument pro ai is "its already here, gotta learn how to work with it".

When places are cutting corners by using AI, I have to assume they're cutting corners elsewhere. It's off-putting and more so with food. Cutting corners on food safety is dangerous and I won't risk it. Might as well be putting up signs warning me of food poisoning.

A dental clinic recently opened up in my area and is offering free cleanings, and while I initially was interested, I quickly said no when I saw that their flyers were AI-generated. If they cut corners on their flyers, what else are they cutting corners on?

The thing is that even people who don’t hate AI in general hate AI image generation And using AI images sends a message to customers that you’re lazy/slapdash/deceptive

I told this VA that I would not hire them because they used ai in their branding (pfp, header image, etc). I'm pretty sure they got mad and complained to the VA community I was in, but it backfired and the community put up a rule that they would not allow genai of any kind in the group.

As I read these comments I am so happy to the universal understanding of “AI Slop”. We all hate it. Ugh.

I am immediately repulsed by AI advertising of any sort. Will not buy. Will not pay for it. No.

TNNDNY DARCOD

fuck, so many fingers. 😣

I mean, who cares for small businesses, but yes I think in the US advertising (maybe just TV and print?) needs to use the actual food item and no photo touchups like airbrush/digital. But they do "style" the item to look better in the ad, like having all the pickles on one side, etc

Boy do i have a story about whiny people using ai at work that i cant share... but they realllllly don't like being fucking called on it and fuck me. Brains are apparently optional these days

Everyone who gets called out over using genAI responds like this and it always comes off like this:

you want this person to be your boss with control over your livelihood