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Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus

AI “slop” is now increasingly on offer at brick-and-mortar establishments. As AI image-making technology has grown more advanced — and cheaper to use, in some cases being free — images with a distinct “slop” flavor, namely ones with surreal or even disturbing attributes, have begun appearing on bodega, café and restaurant menus. There’s the shrimp scampi whose shrimp look more like miniature life preservers. The death of folk graphic design in f…

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The New Yorker

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The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop

Brady Brickner-Wood writes about the proliferation of A.I.-generated images of food, and what they reflect about the history of food photography and television.

3 hours ago·New York, United States

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Restaurant Menus Made by AI? Too Many Times Are Pure Disgusting

There is something horrifying about the texture of foods in these AI-made menus that often even worms remember. A study this year from Scientific Reports corroborates this, illustration of foods made by AI were considered less appetizing and less realistic for most respondents.

14 hours ago·Lisboa, Portugal

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