r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Javen_Lab • 22d ago
Do u dont wanna A real advertisement I saw on Facebook.
Looks like a menu in Hell.
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u/ddddhjxjx 22d ago
Because most AI don’t know visual balance. They do not value empty space to guide the eye at all.
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u/jadie_bae 22d ago
What generator are people even using for them they all look identical
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u/Muleahcar 22d ago
I want to know this too. Everything from my toddler’s soccer school to my local food truck all looks the same.
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u/drizzlecommathe 22d ago
Given this persons menu - the problem goes way deeper then the use of AI
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u/Doctor_Disaster 22d ago
Than*
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u/boondiggle_III 22d ago
Given this person's comment, the problem goes way deeper than 'then'.
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u/MusicalPigeon 22d ago
When I worked at T-Mobile my district manager would make AI posters like this for every competition. Kinda annoying and made me not care about the competitions.
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u/Deldenary 22d ago
My mom is a member of a charity service club and has been making the posters for years, a new member joined who likes using AI and now she's been replaced by them. She still runs the social media and is constantly getting messages looking for information about events, despite the AI posters having the information they are asking for written on it, people just can't find the info on the poster.
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u/Heated13shot 22d ago
Is that why I have to put a decent amount of focus just to read what the flavors are?
I can't just glace at it and get the info, it's like where's waldo.
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u/Cybot5000 22d ago
Remember: You can easily write a prompt that wouldn't be nearly this aids looking. People just don't even bother with that.
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u/dancesquared 22d ago
Well, that’s part of the problem. AI is too much of a “yes man” that doesn’t push back on ridiculous, counterproductive prompts. And the average person is too stupid to realize that balance and strategic use of space is part of good, readable design.
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u/B-Train_ATL 22d ago
That’s almost literally my job. “Hey, this doesn’t look good.” Computers seem super unwilling to call BS like that. I mean people such as interior decorators and movie directors get paid because they’re good at this.
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u/SylviSweetheart 22d ago
God, it took me reading this comment to finally put it together: AI is the embodiment of the WKUK tattoo parlor sketch.
“You put no thought into this tattoo.”
“I put some thought into this tattoo!”
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u/PassivelyAwkward 22d ago
As a graphic designer, this is the kind of shit a client has in mind; just a clusterfuck of random colors, overwhleming information, and no flow. Last year, I had a client want a billboard in that koolaid pineapple hot neon pink background with the regular flavor wings yellow text. They legit didn't understand why I said that was a bad idea.
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u/bunker_man 22d ago
Hence the issue. AI makes randoms able to make a poster, but it won't make them know what type of poster looks good.
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u/mudgrinder 22d ago
This was pretty much along the line of what I was thinking when I saw the poster. This poster here is exactly why companies should hire graphic designers instead of using AI.
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u/Timely_Yoghurt_3359 22d ago
AI generated images are notorious for "visual noise." They add way too much detail to everything and feel the need to fill any blank spots.
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u/thunder_fox69 22d ago
A graphic designer would be like hey can we narrow this down a little? AI will put anything in a flyer no matter how offense to the eye it is
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u/DuckCleaning 22d ago
At least they have Regular Flavor Wings
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u/TheFuschiaBaron 22d ago
Tastes like the regular my nonna made in the old country
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u/OwnerOfCat 22d ago
“What flavor wings are these?”
“Wing flavor”
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u/pm-ur-knockers 22d ago
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u/Ok-Corner-8654 Government Official 22d ago
The Regular Flavor Wings still look like they've got some kind of sauce on them though 😂
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 22d ago
Yeah, that's the regular sauce. It tastes extra regular.
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u/New-Chemist5315 22d ago
Woah, I don’t know if I can handle extra regular, can I just get normal regular?
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u/Zyncon 22d ago
AI finally figuring out how to spell words in pictures has been a terrible advancement.
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u/Wohn-Jick-421 22d ago
“New flavors, pink addition”
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u/Lonely_Dependent_281 22d ago edited 21d ago
This is the kind of thing AI would get right though. It's a human mistake that comes from poor vocabulary. I guarantee the prompt included the words "pink addition" spelled just like that.
I think AI is impacting people's ability to think logically. Even critiques of AI lately seem to lack follow-through, like this guy genuinely can't tell why I said this
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u/The_Illustrator_Girl 22d ago
it's eating itself at this point
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u/Jsdrosera 22d ago
I genuinely feel sadness for all my friends that studied graphic design for a career. Im not dunking on their choice. I just genuinely feel bad that this is happening.
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u/AWL_cow 22d ago
Don't feel too bad - this garbage is temporary. If anything it will make people bored of ai and then there will be a big demand for human made designs again. Its only a matter of time before the pendulum swings.
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u/aguywithbrushes 22d ago
Not gonna happen, and I say that as an artist. Yes, there will be people who specifically seek out human made art, and artists (and their jobs) as a whole won’t disappear, but you vastly overestimate how much people care, and aren’t accounting for the fact that AI can make art that doesn’t actually look as obnoxious as this.
I tested it myself almost 2 years ago and generated some art (paintings, to be fair, which can look good more easily) that legitimately would’ve fooled me.
I was just on Etsy the other day, looking at watercolor wedding invitations, custom maps, etc. Most of the listings were selling AI art, they had thousands of sales (usually 5x-10x more than artists doing the same thing with real art), and all the reviews were praising how good the artist was and how “the watercolors” looked so incredible “and for such an affordable price!!”.
The illustrations were obviously AI to me, because I know what it looks like, but overall they looked pretty nice, and that’s all the average person cares about. They want something they like for the price they can afford, doesn’t matter if it comes from a real artist, a machine, or a sweat shop in China.
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u/bunker_man 22d ago
People forget that just because every sign they see that looks like this is made with ai doesnt mean every sign made with ai looks like this.
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u/PwmEsq 22d ago
I mean based on what I've seen, you probably could have felt bad for them before when their payments were made in exposure
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u/Jsdrosera 22d ago
I’m old enough to feel bad for that phenomenon too! Sympathy downward spiral all around!
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u/BisonThunderclap 22d ago
The fact that I see this for 95% of the food trucks I go to anymore illustrates the reality. Many of these owners would rather die than spend another cent on graphic design.
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u/bunker_man 22d ago
Most of them weren't spending before now either. People forget how many small businesses either had stolen art, hand painted stuff clearly made by someone who never painted before, or random clipart.
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u/cadaverdogs 22d ago
That’s me! I’ve been one for over 20 years. Thankfully I went back and got a communication degree not to long ago, so I’m still useful.
About 50-60% of my work is graphic design. I’m thankful where I work they sees the value of a real person behind the job.
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u/Choice-Chart1894 22d ago
the same designer maybe
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u/Things_with_Stuff Look over their. 22d ago
I'm curious how many serious inquiries he's gotten. I'll bet it's not 0.
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u/AceNautical03 22d ago
Huge fucking troll lmao
Went to the website thats labeled and its a ai chud but a professional one actually trying to push for it in a work place and not making crappy flyers lmao
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 22d ago
Even putting aside the AI aspect, its just a bad design. Too busy, too many colors too close together in shade and tone, bad layout, it takes a sec to evem fogure out what the fuck its tryingto sell you. Its just bad overall.
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u/Valuable-Trick-6711 22d ago
This actually hurts my eyes to look at. There’s way too much to process.
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u/wfpbrecipes 22d ago
A lot of it comes down to cultural preferences too. Look at Indian media from the past 30 years it is way more colorful and busy than anything in the west. The AI makes an average of all its training data, much of which is not culturally appropriate then does a bad job with it
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u/PeeB4uGoToBed 22d ago
That IS the ai aesthetic though, the overcrowding business of it is a thing the ai makes it do
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u/longhairmoderatecare 22d ago
As a graphic designer, I love to see AI fuck up on jobs a human would easily excel at. Keep sucking at design, AI. My life depends on it 😂
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u/ModifiedLeaf 22d ago
It's always maximalists design lol like where is the negative space? You don't need to pack so much information into a design lol
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u/Nbuuifx14 22d ago
I wouldn’t feel too hot that the worst free model AI can offer is still “good enough” for small business owners, not even considering how good AI is getting.
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u/cracked-tumbleweed 22d ago
They think it’s good enough for them in the short-term, but as a customer, Im not eating at a place that isn’t willing to showcase their food.
This is a red-flag to me and Im tired of seeing these low effort menus.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 22d ago
If they're not willing to invest the bare minimum in their own promotion, what am I supposed to infer about the effort they put into their food? This kind of ad makes me assume they got their recipes from ChatGPT, too, and cut every corner possible in production. No thanks.
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u/theroadbeyond 22d ago
100% this ad uses the same 7 red and pink waffles. This doesn't show me what the food looks like im not ordering from a place that doesn't show any of the menu.
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u/badbatch 22d ago
If I was a designer I wouldn't want this person as a client. They're probably selling plates out if their momma's house or some nasty truck they cobbled together. This shit looks like if brain rot had a menu.
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u/buttercream-gang 22d ago
This is allllllll the announcements from my kid’s school now.
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u/chukin_rocks_at_kids 22d ago
I'm a teacher. Everything my new admin puts out is ai slop. Everything. I call her ai principal. It's soo bad. Even my students groan when I have to show something she made.
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u/DateNightThrowRA 22d ago
Isn’t that fucking sad? I’d so much prefer it being old printshop flyers or even goddamn…cheap MS Paint flyers, but this AI trash? My brain just turns off, I don’t read any of it.
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u/FauxButton 22d ago
I know this is AI, but am I the only one who remembers this same style of super colorful and ugly advertisement for party crews/events back in the day? It was bad when it wasn't AI and it's stil bad with AI.
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u/Grey-Templar 22d ago
What the hell is regular flavor?
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u/pixelatedslinky 22d ago
" Same waffles, different planet." Why tf would I travel to another planet for waffles I can get here?
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u/Magic2424 22d ago
idk BUT the entire business is fucking dumb (at least that people buy it). i’ve seen these and all it is, is they buy a prepackaged pineapple spear container and put a koolaid packet in it (and maybe sugar) and sell that. FOR $20. 20 FUCKING DOLLARS.
I guess if people have the money to spend on a prepackaged pineapple spear and 50 cent packet of koolaid for literally 4-5x the price (or 10x if you just bought a fucking pineapple) than by all means go waste it in this.
but if you buy one of these things you have no right to complain about money
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u/_Cecille 22d ago
I'm getting overstimulated just by looking at this crap. What the fuck do they even want me to look and focus at??
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u/PartTimeJunkie412 22d ago
I thought those were all flavors of wings and I was disgusted. It took me a solid 30 seconds to figure out what they were even selling 😂
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u/cupcakebean 22d ago
I still can't figure it out. Weird flavored waffles and wings? Is that a thing?
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u/rlarcila 22d ago
Also if you don’t post real pics of the food you serve- yeah u don’t deserve to be in business
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u/TanglimaraTrippin 22d ago
Before AI menus were a thing, I used to get annoyed and suspicious when eateries would use stock images of food instead of pictures of their actual food.
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u/animusd YELLOW 22d ago
It's everywhere i hate it so much it looks horrible and ugly and unappealing I did marketing in school this literally goes against what I was taught
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u/No-Cat-9339 22d ago
Can you elaborate on what you were taught and what is going against it here? I definitely don't like this, but I can't verbalize why..
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u/Previous_Beautiful27 22d ago
Because composition matters. Negative space matters. You want to guide the eye, you want to express your intentions concisely in an easily digestible manner. You want something pleasing to the eye and inoffensive. You want to draw the viewer in and highlight your key points.
When an LLM just vomits all over the image, it’s the exact opposite of everything a successful piece of print copy should be. It’s messy and aimless and cluttered and incomprehensible to the eye. It’s jarring and off putting. It repels the eye.
I can’t wait til people get over this style of AI slop advertising.
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u/ahhowwitburns 22d ago
It took me about 80 seconds of context clues to figure out they were selling chicken and waffles
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u/HerbivorousFarmer 22d ago
Oh shit, I thought it was for vape juice 🤣
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u/PM_me_punanis 22d ago
Exact thought. I didn't bother to actually look further because my head was starting to hurt from the awful sensory overload.
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u/Forsaken_Put8204 22d ago
I don’t even know what this place sells and I don’t feel like reading all that to find out. But if I ever see a restaurant advertise like this, I’ll stay the fuck away and go somewhere else.
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u/rollanother1 22d ago
I legit thought it was a dispensary ad at first until I found the vaguely chicken wing looking things in the corner
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u/SofubiShogun 22d ago
All these AI food ads look the same and yet this one is more obnoxious than the others.
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u/stevez_86 22d ago
That is a scratch-off lottery ticket to me before looking at the details.
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u/schwaggro 22d ago
Good lord, how busy is too busy?
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u/GG_Red_Five 22d ago
This how busy minimum wage jobs expect you to be at all times.
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u/namelessjade 22d ago
People are so outta touch. I’ve never seen AI make food look good, in fact it makes my skin crawl. So many people ai food looks nasty so publicly so why do people still post their AI food flyers?😭😭
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u/clubmedschool 22d ago
Pink Addition
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u/Chilasono 22d ago
Im trying to figure out any context in which it wouldnt be edition. I got nothing.
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u/Lonely_Dependent_281 22d ago
Whoever prompted this has a limited vocabulary and the AI doesn't know which word actually belongs there in context so it just did what it was told to the letter
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u/Write-or-Wrong_ 22d ago
Even if the food is good, this is a GREAT WAY to deter people from your business
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u/angelbbreeze888 22d ago
Fr I would FUCK UP these waffles but they really made this cringe ass flyer and put it up 😬😭
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u/Write-or-Wrong_ 22d ago
Right! And these AI flyers are EVERYWHERE and they all look the damn same😣
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u/sircraze 22d ago
AI stuff aside, how do you look at this and think it looks good? It's one of the biggest visual messes I've ever seen.
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u/MrMiyagi13 22d ago
AI or not (clearly AI) - far too busy for me to want to get information from it.
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u/Pndrizzy 22d ago
EVERY PIXEL MUST BE NEON AND HAVE TEXT OR ICONIGRAPHY
NO EMPTY SPACE
MAXIMIZE EVERYTHING
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u/Mykidsrmonsters 22d ago
It took me a while to figure out what they're selling. Pink waffles with wings and kool-aid?
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u/NotTheCommercial 22d ago
I feel like atp even just a picture of the product with comic sans is more appealing to look at
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u/Artevyx 22d ago
WTF is a Kool-aid Pineapple?
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u/Competitive-Lime7775 22d ago
I think it’s the current trend of pouring a Kool-aid packet into a jar of pineapple pieces to flavour the pineapple differently.
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u/Erock787 22d ago
This AI slop advertising is such a strain to the eyes....back in the day you had to put effort on photoshop to do your advertisments but today no effort all done in 2 mins through chatgpt
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u/arroyoAa 22d ago
As soon as I see an AI ad or menu I’m out doesn’t matter if it’s a spot I used to frequent
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u/roshiancet_creepy 22d ago
Dear god
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u/SenseiRaheem 22d ago
God personally put each one of those alien bubble structures on the image of the fried chicken instead of going with regular, delicious fried chicken skin.
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u/DJGrawlix 22d ago
I cannot understand what's being offered in this ad, aside from flavor.
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u/Nicholasryan99 22d ago
I rather find a creative kid and pay them 50 bucks to draw up whatever they'd like as long as they include the important stuff. This instantly turns me off, the food could be amazing but I'd never bother after seeing this.
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u/dov_ah_keen 22d ago
I don't understand why Ai food ads make me nauseous but they do. It's repulsive and makes me queezy.
it's like I'm looking at alien cruisine
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u/TealCatto 22d ago
Because of that weird repetitive pattern that looks like insect eggs or maggot burrows.
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u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 22d ago
Damn, waffles are sweet enough with syrup. I don’t need a pile of mixed cereal and candy with my waffles. And combining any of those with wings just sounds disgusting. And I love chicken and waffles. This is not the way.
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u/OneFee6285 22d ago
Why does it look like a music fest poster 😭
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u/Mattress_Stainz 22d ago
I can't believe pink paradise splash and birthday bash in paradise are playing the same stage this year!
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u/DebonairBleu471 22d ago
The colours are an overwhelmingly obnoxious and overstimulating eyesore...
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u/spice_war 22d ago
“Do you lerrrrrrrv eating gorbage? Do you also lerrrrrv paying exorbitantly high proices for gorbage?”
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u/Takemebacktobreezy 22d ago
This makes me irrationally angry even though it uses my all time favorite color of neon pink. I don't get how restaurants don't understand we want to see the ACTUAL FOOD they make and not their weird crosshatch ai garbage
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u/CooCooForCocosPuffs 22d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/FyzLrrPloeaZEFCNMR
This is one of the worst I’ve seen lol good lord
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u/laurajodonnell 22d ago
I used to cringe when seeing ads made in a Word document, hell even in Canva (sorry I’m an Adobe snob). Now, I am ELATED when I see businesses sharing designs made in those programs.
If your flyer is made by AI I refuse to support your business.
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u/to_annihilate 22d ago
A new restaurant is opening near us. Their previous posts were just interior sneak peak photos of the space. Then, they posted an AI burger and got ripped to shreds in the comments. They deleted it pretty quickly.
I also send feedback to these restaurants, especially ones that just posted normal photos of their food before, and it has stopped or lessened the use of gen ai. Some people don't get it but frankly, I don't know how. I was looking for some specials for a particular day of the week on Instagram and every flyer looked the same but they were all different places. Disappointing.
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u/cassandrafallon 22d ago edited 22d ago
When I see local businesses do this now I comment on their posts saying sorry but I don't support places that use generative ai for advertisement. Won't stop the mega corps but might make the mom and pop think twice.
Edit for all the people hating on this: I am not opposed to all AI, I am opposed to killing the planet for slop. Yes Reddit uses AI and I’m on Reddit, how dare I criticize our tech overlords oh the hypocrisy. Fuck I use copilot at work because it’s being pushed upon us hard. That doesn’t make it ok to fill the world with slop, nor should people who want to run a small business operate under the idea that you cannot possibly be successful without using ai whenever possible. Use AI when it makes sense and when it creates actual improvement and value (which for reference, usually doesn’t scream chatGPT did this for me for free).
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u/Inevitable-Tone-8595 22d ago
Make sure you also tell them the menu itself looks like a chaotic pile of dogshit, but like if my dog ate a unicorn
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u/Lopsided_Package9033 22d ago
Same waffles. Different planet.
What planet?
Oh, wait OP already answered that: Hell.
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u/le-derpina-art 22d ago
either these waffles are so sweet they make you nauseous 3 bites in, or they're basically microwave waffles with food coloring, fruit, and cereal
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u/Pixelated-Hitch 22d ago
Any business using these kind of ads won’t get a dollar from me period. I’m ok if a bit of Ai is used bit composted together properly by a human but this nonsense gives me the ick right away
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u/continuetolove 22d ago
Same but also ick aside it tells me several things about the advertiser which make them lose credibility in my eyes.
1, They don’t see a problem with selling something (especially food) using false images of the product instead of a real photograph.
2, They have very poor judgement and taste. I truly do not trust the decision making skills of somebody who looks at this abomination and thinks “oh this will make me look like a legitimate and trustworthy business owner.” Absolutely piss poor reasoning skills.
3, Rules for thee and not for me. Every time I see one of these I comment and say that a dumb electronic flyer is a bad use of AI because of the water and energy consumption of data centers, and without fail every single time the person responds and says “I know it’s bad for the environment but it was just this one time and doesn’t it look nice? What was I supposed to do, not advertise my business?”→ More replies (2)
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u/Zoo06 22d ago
Looks like a Lisa Frank folder fucked itself.