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what it /looks/ like!!!

I remember when there was an uproar over TV commercials using Vaseline to make burgers more juicy, or even just using heavy cream in cereal commercials instead of milk. Wild how far standards have fallen. I'm beginning to suspect the slippery slope fallacy isn't actually a fallacy.

You read my mind

That's what I'm saying! People used to meme on how a whooper doesn't look like the advertisements and now we're out here putting fake looking food that doesn't exist on signs

If they can’t be bothered to take a real photo of their food what other corners are they cutting?

I don't know that we're comfortable with it but the people who would normally have some regulatory role to speak up and say "hey, what the fuck?" have been eliminated sidelined or subverted. Consumers don't have rights, capitalists do, in our bright New heritage foundation World.

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We're so used to everything we buy being fake, cheap, temu dropship garbage it barely matters what the photos on the website are anymore.

To be fair, the "real food" ads have been lying to us for decades as well, appearance-wise.

This was so unappetizing that I almost didn’t try the rib tips. Almost. They sucked.

Restaurants take note: I ain't eating there If you're so ashamed of your food you won't even snap a photo of it for your sign, I'm just assuming you put as much effort into making it as you did AI generating that sign and it's a disgusting disgrace to cuisine. I ain't alone.

All it takes is for enough rich white Karen's with good lawyers to sue the companies and they'll stop. Even if the lawsuits get thrown out (though the ftc might have something to say about AI advertising food) it will cost enough that the companies will no longer consider it worth the trouble.

I don't care how often ive been going to a place or how good the food may be, if they use AI for the food imagery instead of how it actually looks or the trickery they used to do, i'm not eating there. How am I supposed to trust the food quality if you don't even show me the *good* side of it??????

Right? That burger would need at least 7 slices of cheese and maybe 6 slices of bacon to look like that. Idk who your supplier is, you’re not selling that burger for 16 bucks. And don’t even get me started on the pico that appears to be made of tiny colorful beads.

Great point by the worlds number one rice counter

I reported multiple ads I thought were a company making knockoffs of a product I liked only to find out they were AI generating b-roll shots of their merch and didn't care that it looked shit and heavily distorted their logo/branding.

Exactly. Advertising has been drifting so far from reality for so long, few people even noticed that the pictures of paint and glue burgers are AI now.

You reminded me of that time I saw someone post "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew" and linked to their website. Sure enough, slightly askew.

Gonna need Japanese laws about food advertisingto get through this one

I can’t get William Gibson’s Jackpot out of my head. A slow rolling end of the world where 80% of the world dies out not in a violent explosion, but a decades-long slump into misery.

It makes me not go in a place...

Doesn’t make sense financially too, since you normally have to pay a subscription fee to use ai tools.

Ad pictures were always exaggerated and done up, but at least they were actually pictures of the thing

Are you saying this isn’t an accurate representation??

“Honey, what’s wrong? You haven’t touched your Shrouroborus.”

as a kid i was told that false advertising was against the law. i'm genuinely not sure when that stopped being true, if it ever was.

Someone should sue for false advertisement just to get the issue to the courts.

I started a list on my Google Maps of places I see use AI advertising so in the event I ever consider eating there, I can see that they suck.