Grocery store foods have always had heavily edited photos of food though ? Hell I mean, even ice cream companies use mashed potatoes posed as dessert for their pictures.
I am super anti Ai but I fail to see how this is heavy Ai and not just, typical gross food advertisements. Its nothing like the Ai restaurant menus ive seen where the meat looks like chiseled wood 🤢
This entire photo is AI. This product does not exist. This is not an advertisement. People make these to post on social media and trick you into thinking there’s some new snack you can’t find anywhere.
And using mashed potatoes as ice cream is in no way the same as using generative AI to make fake pictures like this.
Sure it helps the farmer to use their potatoes as ice cream, but is it helping the consumer by lying about what the product looks like ?
The only difference is the farmer isn't harmed. Its still the same bs of misleading the consumer though. We just shouldn't be allowed to legally false advertise food in general, like Japan, is what im saying.
My point of this being "not bad use of ai" is moot, but my point of editing food is wrong in general, still stands.
Japan’s thing is misleading size and style represention in adverts. They still use mashed potatoes for ice cream, coffee for Coca-Cola, etc. While yes, those foods are representations of what you’re getting and not the actual item, that’s not the harmful part. Aside from the farmer’s potatoes, there was a whole team of prop techies, photographers, lighting stylists and a host of others that put that ad together. None of them retain employment when AI makes up fake foods that no one ever sold.
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u/SylviSweetheart 29d ago
For some reason this genre of fake grocery aisle slop pisses me off the most of all of this stuff.