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I own a beer bar, and we work with some friends who have a catering business that does pop ups on our patio. They've been using AI to generate flyers and then tag us to have us share them to our larger audience. I stopped doing it because they look like trash, get low engagement, and are off brand for our art-inspired space. They got upset with me that we weren't helping promote, and I explained my position on their AI flyers, and they sent a very lengthy email back about how AI is being utilized by small businesses in ways that we're still scratching the surface to understand its value. I popped the email into chatgpt and asked if it wrote that email and it said it did, lol. Now I have more work on my hands to design their flyers for them, but it's worth it.
it's so bizarre to me that people who work with food don't realize that the ai trash is producing images that are REVOLTING, do not look like food, and actively deter people from their products.
you'd be better off with a half lit shitty polaroid of actual food than putting that trash on your branding, so much of it is nightmare fuel
You're definitely right, the food looks so phony. The thing that's wild is half the time they make a flyer, there's only bricks of yellow text on a black background that's too much info to read. I'm visiting San Francisco right now and saw a pizza shop last night that their entire menu was AI garbage and was so shocked how prevalent it's become.
I used to work in a wine store. Customers would always joke “hahaha i just pick them by the label 😂” and I would always say. That’s not stupid, wine is about aesthetics. Someone who makes good wine will appreciate the value of a good label. And the inverse is true, people with poor taste won’t care about their label, but they won’t be able to make good wine, either.
I’m saying judge a book by its cover. How else are you gonna know what’s in the book without looking at its cover??
. . . You're supposed to open the book . . .
big fan of Our Daily Red because it doesn't give my wife migraines lol.
valid points all over.
I had a friend in Uni who studied food science. She went on to work in marketing a a sculptor for advertisements. They sculptures were hand crafted to look delicious but would have been completely inedible, if anyone was stupid enough to eat them.
It is an art form and unfortunately a lot of people fail to appreciate art.
/me tries to eat the chiseled from marble pie.... ooh, this tastes like owies
It’s always an “it’s inevitable” argument.
It's also inevitable their pop-up gets replaced by humanoid robots next year, using the same logic.
It doesn't work that way tho
I mean, it literally does though. The email sounded phony AF, especially knowing that the person's first language isn't English and it was overly proper sounding. I copy and pasted it into chatgpt and said "did you write this email?“ and it's response was" yes, based on the writing style and phrasing, I wrote this content."
I've been using ChatGPT a bit at work lately, since they've already paid for the subscription for everyone. I've learned that it is a bad idea to ask it any leading question, because it is likely to just give you the answer you want to hear.
Someone put in the intro to the book Frankenstein into an ai checker and it confirmed it to be 100 percent written by an LLM. It's not deterministic.
This is the first thing about LLMs always, and what most people can't seem to understand.
LLMs are a thing where you give an input and get an output, and it happens to correspond to reality much of the time. But there's no actual understanding there.
Exactly why it needs code to enforce repetitive results.
It does not remember things it made, so no. It doesn't work that way.
It doesn't remember but that won't keep it from answering a question as to whether it thinks an email was AI generated. It'll also be happy to confidently answer a question with a wrong answer to.
Doesn't work that way. Only if they programmed LLMs to sign the work like using a hash you would be able to confirm or deny with 100% accuracy
A usual ramen spot I've been going to for the past few years for some reason replaced the old images of the food on their menu with AI-gen ones and it looked so weird. I saw it last time I went for my usual, but I kept looking at the art and like a Lovecraftian horror the longer I looked at it the worse the details appeared. It literally affected my appetite because psychologically I couldn't help but think I was ordering some freak-ass food as depicted in the new ai-gen pictures, and the ramen just didn't taste as good to me that day. And I don't think I'll go back anymore :(
You should tell them
The amount of food menus with it on is ridiculous. If you sell food you want it to look good, appetizing etc, so making it look like plastic tat is counter effective.
Second I immediately think they either don't care or are uninterested in their product. That makes me question how much they care about their food, safety quality taste etc. It's an immediate no for me.
I recently read a decent article (in Danish mind you), focused on the positions some volunteers had from getting more fans to their local football club... Because they now posted stuff on Facebook.
Then followed up by an expert on engagement, and statistics on about half the population felt AI image generations to be off putting - And a fair chunk of the remainder not really caring, and a small minority finding it cool/useful.
That experts main position, was the human touch was lost and the volunteer of the local football club would most likely get more people to stadium if they asked a bunch of 2nd graders to draw match day posts.
Because it would genuinely connect to people. So yeah, a lot of smaller businesses and volunteers are currently having a feeling all of this AI gen is giving them more traffic and attention, but in reality they're getting more attention because they went from doing nothing to doing something
Isn't a beer bar just a bar?
Typically, one expects a "bar" to have beer and liquor and the ability to make at least basic mixed drinks (rum and Coke, gin and tonic, etc.).
A "beer bar" usually has a wider variety of beers on draft and no liquor or mixed drinks.
Damn you could just have a lot of beers and liquor as well, sounds gimmicky
Some places have different licensing costs and requirements for places that serve beer and wine only vs also serving spirits.
Upvoting this obviously human response
Never heard of this shit, ngl. In Pittsburgh you can still smoke in bars, even ones that serve food
Nah, it's a poncy pub.
A bar retains the ponce but lacks beer.
Exactly, that's the point! Google and Microsoft can burn their billions of dollars scratching that surface to understand it better. For small businesses, it's NOT ready as you saw through real business results.