Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus

7373737373•about 1 hour ago

Time for Japanese laws - like the Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations: https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...

byproxy•about 4 hours ago

Wow. I was just planning on getting some food for an event Saturday evening and was looking through Doordash/Grubhub for spots nearby and so many of the menu "pictures" were AI-generated and really made me feel queasy. I had to stop the search after a while because I was getting plain disgusted! Glad it ain't just me (... well, not glad cuz this sucks, but nice to know I'm not particularly sensitive).

goosejuice•about 4 hours ago

Smart phone cameras are very capable of food photography at the level required here. This is just bad business sense. That said, if you compare any mainstream fast food joint's photos to their actual meals you'll be equally disappointed and occasionally disgusted.

account42•about 2 hours ago

It should just be false advertising to show a picture that is very different from what you actually get.

toasty228•about 2 hours ago

Even worse than that, AI are perfectly capable of generating very good images if you have some taste and a few keywords to prompt it. This shows that they have no taste, no care for their business and no shame

JohnFen•about 2 hours ago

Just the fact that they're generating images of fictional food rather than taking pictures of the food they actually make shows that the restaurant has no taste or care, or has a reason to hide their cooking.

gdulli•about 1 hour ago

We have to quickly drop the expectation that the platonic ideal usage of AI is what we should expect to see. The typical use of it will be as a cheap/lazy labor machine like you say.

r14c•about 1 hour ago

It would still be false advertising even with "taste" since I still can't tell what the actual food looks like.

account42•about 2 hours ago

I don't get why they all have to use the same over-sharpened fake looking style on top of being slop.

RicoElectrico•about 2 hours ago

This is everywhere now and I updated a classic XKCD: https://wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/ff8a54cc85baff6d988770edf500dc...

Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus

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