Nasty AI food posters

It's weird because a lot of the cheaper end of food places had slightly rubbish pictures, that I never particularly liked. But these are definitely worse. And all have the same vibe. Definitely uncanny valley.

What i dont get is why the AI posters all use this kind of burnished colour theme. Does anyone knkw what I mean? 😂

If their food looks good enough they should be able to take some decent photos of it and create their own posters easily enough. Getting AI to generate fake food images is lazy as hell. Also if there’s one thing GPT hasn’t got good at yet it’s posters…

A butchers near me uses alot of AI images, I might have used them if they didn't.

Many years ago I went on a few dates with a chap who created food for food adverts. Polystyrene was something he used a lot as it was easy to carve and shape, paint, re-shape, stick back together etc., and more importantly it didn't melt or shrivel or congeal under the strong lighting and could sit there all day if needed.

Wow. I see what you mean. Why would they do that?!!!

The thing is they’re all so samey that the individual businesses just blend into one big mass. I see the AI poster on my Facebook feed and skim over it because I’m sure I’ve already seen it twice that morning, so in a way it’s the opposite of what they’re actually trying to achieve.
There’s a new cafe near me and they’ve used AI images for all their branding, including the sign above their store front, just makes me think their food is going to be fake and bland so I’m avoiding the place completely.

Can anyone post an image as an example? I am not sure what’s being discussed and am intrigued!

Aye..point taken...had a looky.

Thanks I will Google can't say I've saw any tbh.

These AI slop posters are awful - they’re all over Facebook advertising events or services. Lots of the local businesses in my town are using them too.

If a business can’t be bothered to put at least some time (or a small bit of budget) into their marketing, I can’t be arsed to spend any money there. No marketing = no sales. At least try and use a Canva template for some sort of variety - most are free. Or whatever happened to paying a local graphic designer, who actually has skills, to produce some eye catching branding/marketing materials.

Frozen food boxes the contents bear no correlation to the lovely photo on the out
Big flakey bits of cod/haddock white gorgeousness

Reality insipid grey shite.

This is what I’m thinking…

Yeah but if you see those ones on holidays abroad they always look disgusting

I know the trypophobia-alert image, I think. Or maybe there’s lots of it about.
There’s something on posters dotted around my city masquerading as a filled sarnie roll, and every time the damn ad crosses my screen here I flinch, my brain squirms horribly, and I almost vomit. At stage I’m fear of encountering it again. Yeuuuch.

(Since public reaction to AI in this sphere is so negative, why do they persevere? It’s like those artificial voiceovers on many a YouTube thing: very, very lifelike until they make a catatsrophic and hilarious error in pronunciation, then the entire info video is ruined. Why not use the nearest idle human to read the script? Doesn't have to be Greg Wise, fgs.)

Well you walked past before they were using AI posters and you are still walking past so the posters aren't making any difference to how much you are spending there.

I see plenty of places with these posters now and they generally seem to be doing good business - if it saves them money and doesn't impact their sales why wouldn't they use them.

Yeah it's the AI event flyers/birthday party invites that I loathe. Soulless, flat and always with an edge of uncanny.

On a similar vein, I am in various Facebook groups for my (fairly rare) health condition and people are constantly spamming them with shit AI posters about the condition. It is so annoying!

The issue is that before AI, food photography took a lot of skill and was probably quite an expensive investment by the business. As above poster mentioned, a food photographer has to essentially "fake" the food item in order for it to look presentable. For example, most dairy products you see in commercials and posters (you know, the ones with berries floating on top) are not yoghurts or mil at all but PVA glue because it has the right viscosity for a nice shot and objects sit on top of it rather than sink into it. The correct lighting, the editing... all takes time and skill and, therefore, money. I am fairly certain that most little independent places used stock images in the past anyway. Now, they don't have to bother with any of it. If their posters need updating (as they often do when the price changes or posters themselves deteriorate over time), it's far cheaper to use AI. Obviously, that doesn't mean they do a good job...but I can understand it from the cost-saving perspective.

I hate them too. They all look the same. Surely you want your advertisement to stand out from the rest?

trypophobic brain surgery
It looked like what now?

Always with random value-type slogans:
“Eat enjoy love” 😂

Can’t stand the instant created AI posters. Especially for independent local businesses, who used to have personal looking posters and adverts now have these incredibly tacky things with words and images all over the place.