Just Eat's AI food photos turned tiger prawns into baby tigers — a linguistics lesson in why
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-24
Just Eat apologized after AI-generated menu photos showed a bowl of baby tigers in garlic sauce (tiger prawns) and a puffer jacket covered in potatoes (jacket potato), despite claiming manual review. The author explains the righthand head rule of English compound words—humans follow it instinctively, but image models trained on captioned photos struggle with it, a known weakness researchers have documented for years.
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