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Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus
(www.nbcnews.com)
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No picture at all would likely sell more burritos than this:
Did they get that burrito from the Upside Down?
What in the actual fuck.
If I had Trypophobia, I would be tripping so high right now.
Ok, fine, but it's ONLY $13.50, so what are you gonna do? Not buy it just because it looks like it's actually from actual Hell? I didn't think so
Oh hell no, there's a condition where things with holes trigger fight or ~~flight~~ reactions. I would set that on fire. I've gotten better but I can barely look at it.
I dont know if I'm more disgusted by the picture, or the price.
I can not accept that this is a photo of a printed sign. Its unimaginable.
ChatGPT - Prompt Here's a fun one. Please make this supposedly real sign that was AI-generated of a burrito look like an actual tasty burrito instead of something out of a horror movie.
So my real question becomes who the hell looked at that generated image and thought we should put that on a sign for real and people will buy our food. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm reconsidering eating a burrito ever again. Fucking hell
Cancer in a tortilla!
I'm trying to figure out what leads someone to look at this and say "yes this is good" and then fucking print it, or pay to have it printed. Like, why would you just... print without even fucking looking?
It's so bad that I almost wonder if the person who posted it is themselves using AI (the angle of the reflected street looks off?).
Even if that one isn’t, there have been similar verifiably real instances.
Boss: "Corperate demand more AI. AI is the future and the future is now!"
Graphic artist: "fuck i need this job to pay for my families survival. Fuck it 'OpenClaudPT generate a breakfast burrito'"
OpenClaudPT: "Wow that is an amazingly insightful and well reasond idea. There are not many people around who could have come up with such a fasinatingly innovative idea for a picture. Here is a picture of a cat! Hope you like it"
Graphic artist: "I didnt want a picture of a cat i wanted a picture of a breakfast burrito!"
OpenClaudPT: "Whoopsie poopsie. You are absolutly right. That is 100% my fault, i will own that one. Here is your Moon Sausage Burrito"
Graphic artist: "Fuck it! Close enough. If the boss dosent give a fuck about my work enough to let me do it then the best they are getting is a Moon Sausage Burrito. Whatever the hell that is"
Boss: "Why does the burrito look weird, oh well corporate asked for more ai and Graphic artist clearly used AI to make whatever this is. I need this job to pay for my families survival so im not going against corperate. Full send it!"
OpenClaud is clearly an amalgam of most AI agents out there, a very accurate one.
It's just missing a
"this needs to be at the printer before end of day and I need to review this before then."
"Dude, it's 3:30 pm"
"Then you better make it snappy!"
Boss said add a picture, I said artist costs money, boss said "use AI" - just doin' my job.
Malicious compliance
Breakfast cthurrito
Yech, did they put trypophobia in the prompt?
No shot this is real