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Because in addition to already running your own business, you should also be a ad exec and a artist.
Listen fuck the ai industry and what its doing, but can we fuck off with hating on the people who use it for what its worth right now?
Edit, to be clear, fuck off and suck a dick to everyone who replied to me.
No, we cant. I would rather see just plain times new roman text than that slop. Especially if its food related
If you're too lazy to photograph the food you produce day in and day out, I don't wanna find out where else you'll cut corners. It doesn't take much effort to pop a plate on a cutting board or white poster board and snap a shot with your phone.
That’s what running your own business is. You do as much as possible by yourself so you don’t have to share the profits. What would these people have done before AI? They would have had to figure it out. And their solution—whatever it was—would have been more tasteful than AI slop.
If they were using it for what it's good at, we wouldn't be upset.
This is french fries and coleslaw and crab cake sando with lettuce.
A business can log into the free version of Canva, type in what they want and come out with 90 different templates for their marketing and flyers.
The slop poster isn't really replacing an 'ad exec', so it's about 'artist'.
A common scenario people have posted is when they GenAI up some food pictures. Given they could have snapped pictures of the food they cook with a cell phone pretty much instantly, this particularly doesn't inspire confidence in their food.
Related is if they GenAI up their menu, then it can get confusing/weird as the content sometimes doesn't quite match what the restauraunt actually does. Which makes me realize how lazy they are about accuracy.
The other case I've seen is them using image gen to put out a 'mascot' character. I suppose this is less critically on point, but compared to someone who skipped the 'mascot' gimmick altogether or someone who at least charmingly made an attempt, it's a bit of a turn-off.