Restaurants slammed for AI-generated food images that look too perfect or worse

Developers and users are criticizing restaurants for using AI-generated food images in ads, with some looking grotesquely bad and others unrealistically perfect, both creating a jarring gap with the real dishes served.

2026-09-16 ~ 2026-09-17 · 2 related posts

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