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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Restaurants using AI for food menu is a sign of bad quality.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago

The best pizza I ever had was from a hole-in-the-wall place in Montreal with a layer of grease in the windows, thick cobwebs covered in dead flies, and an air-conditioner black with mold.

If anyone cares, or remembers, it was Rock And Roll Pizza on Bleury, where the Spectrum used to be. In front of the NYKS.

It was a Persian guy running the place. One day I convinced a Persian co-worker to eat there. I guess he gave shit to the owner because the next day the place was a lot cleaner.

Basically they made some kind of shawarma pizza that was out of this world.

Oh and the business next door sold sex dolls, there was a fully inflated transexual doll in that window.

I miss that Montreal. I don't like the crappy generic condo abomination that's there now.

So anyways, if greasy windows and dead spiders didn't turn me off, what does it say that seeing some generic gross AI art turns me off?

(I just remembered another MTL pizza place with greasy windows and dead flies that was so amazing a guy drove from the South Shore just to eat there.)

[–] coolfission@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like when I go to vendor halls at conventions and half the vendors are repackaged aliexpress/temu items

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

It’s like when I go to ~~vendor halls at conventions and half the vendors~~ any store that's not a mega-department store all the items are repackaged aliexpress/temu items

ftfy

TBH, the US has been middle-manning economically depressed labor for cheap goods for decades. It just turns out that China is way better at it than we are.

Alibaba/express just made it a marketplace where companies could do it with zero friction.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org -3 points 1 hour ago

It's still a local business so why abandon that because no one there has the creative ability to make "cool" looking ads?

AI for the masses means they can "draw" stuff, even without any artistic ability.

You might mention your dislike of their using AI - and offer your artistic services instead. Shunning business because of their lack of creative ability is kind of silly... made even worse if their product is good and what you want.

[–] andysavo@lemmy.today -4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Nah, it's a testament to no matter what you do, some people would rather be miserable and "make a statement" than to just forget the damn ai art and go inside the damn restaurant.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why doesn't the owner just forget the AI AND TAKE A FUCKING PICTURE OF THE FOOD THEY'RE MAKING ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[–] andysavo@lemmy.today -4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I've been to plenty of restaurants THAT TAKE PHOTOS OF THEIR FOOD and it's just as capable of being bad than if it was ai. Stay mad though, I'm sure it'll change because of your anger.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

????

Baffling response. The point is none of this AI cancer is necessary.

[–] andysavo@lemmy.today 1 points 59 minutes ago

While I agree with the whole ai is ruining shit argument, I'm just saying I'm not going to punish a LOCAL MOM AND POP SHOP for using AI. Instead of boycotting them, why not talk to them about why AI is bad and offer to make their damn menu for them. Instead you pack up your chairs and say Nope! And then go complain about it behind a screen. DO SOMETHING rather than SAYING SOMETHING.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Ahh "the customer is always wrong" motto...

...also, your image of others as "people who prefer to be miserable" rather than people who prefer hand made art, or art that hasn't been stolen and used for profit by billionaires, or art that wasn't created by polluting the planet... Is it's self, a miserable illusion of others.

So you, yourself are choosing the miserable viewpoint.

Personally I'm glad people have a sense of justice, and pay attention to the news and care about issues of morality and climate survival.

I like people fighting billionaires, and fighting for the environment. I think they're great, and that your view point - is the flawed and weaker one.

[–] andysavo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Miserable meaning you just HAD to post something about it. I'm all for fighting billionaires, BUT TYPING IN ALL CAPS AT AN ONLINE STRANGER ISN'T FIGHTING BILLIONAIRES.

[–] LazyOldPervert@lemmus.org 7 points 5 hours ago

By people not supporting businesses who use AI instead of creating jobs for humans? No I'm not bothered by that at all.

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