Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
A restaurant patron expresses frustration over a local business replacing their menu design with low-quality, uncanny AI-generated imagery. The author argues that even small businesses with tight margins should prioritize authentic design over 'slop' AI art.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing cultural backlash against the indiscriminate use of generative AI in small business branding and design.
I stopped by a Filipino/Hawaiian (mostly filipino) restaurant/bar that was recommended to me a few months ago by someone I met at an AANHPI event. One of my friends that was eating with us had gone many times before and said they enjoyed the menu.
We looked up the menu before heading over.
As a Filipino-American I always get curious about Filipino restaurants because a lot of our dishes are family-style/comfort food, so it’s always interesting to see what foods will be on the menu.
To our disappointment (did I mention the friend group I was eating with are my artist friends and we had just gone to a doodle date meetup?) the restaurant revamped their menu with AI. NO!
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