Quite a few restaurants have started using AI-generated food photos for their menus (or maybe the whole menu is AI-generated). The idea to use completely artificial photos is pretty problematic in itself, considering I expect them to represent the food I will actually be served. But that’s still not my biggest complaint.
My biggest problem is how these photos look absolutely disgusting—unnatural, grotesque, and almost vomit-inducing. I don’t know what exactly it is—could strange textures, surfaces, or presence of holes—but I get deep sense of revulsion seeing these images in the wild, same as what I get when I see trypophobic images.
Let’s hope these restaurants come to their senses and realize that their ‘shortcut’ is as clear as possible and it doesn’t look remotely as good as they think. Ffs, a simple stock image picked from Google Images would be better than whatever abomination this is.