AI food photos on menus show the platonic ideal, not your actual sandwich
najoungkim · x · 2026-10-28
growingdaniel's widely shared rant asks what the point of AI-generated food photos on menus even is: they show the platonic form of a breakfast sandwich rather than the sandwich the restaurant actually serves. The post resonates as a critique of AI imagery replacing real photos in contexts where the photo's job is to make a promise about the real product.
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