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When it first happens to you, you think you re crazy. You wander into a cafe and look at a menu with a variety of bagel sandwiches, but each illustration looks eerily flawless, precisely symmetrical, and oddly smooth, eliciting a visceral sensation that something isn t right. You might think you re paranoid, but you re not losing your mind. Generative AI menus have hit the restaurant business courtesy of models trained on a narrow, pleasing aesthetic that feels wrong even when you can t articulate why.

Sometimes, these illustrations are egregiously fake, like a burrito with cheese so bubbly and melty that it looks more like avant garde art than lunch. More often, they re so ordinary looking that you only notice something is wrong when you take a second to look more closely.

It s almost like an alien trying to make a pizza without understanding its core principles, Reality Defender CTO Alex Lisle told TechCrunch. (Reality Defender itself is part of a growing category of startups selling AI-detection and content-verification tools — a business that exists in part because of issues like this one.)

Throw a rock in NYC and you’ll hit a mildly off putting AI food advertisement.

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Lisle says that the way these models are built can help explain why illustrations seem to embrace such a specific aesthetic one where every ice cream scoop is perfectly round, and where shrimp seem to have been genetically modified to eat their own tails, creating new Lovecraftian food horrors .

Large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models the kinds of AI models that make seemingly omniscient chatbots and image generators like ChatGPT and Midjourney possible are trained on vast quantities of data. The models then identify patterns in the datasets to predict what a user is looking for when they ask something like, Make me a menu for a burger restaurant.

A lot of this stuff looks like a Chili s menu from 2015, and there s a reason for that, Lisle said. That was the corpus of work from which [the models] drew their function.

New training data is invaluable to the companies building AI models Amazon has even been found to source rare books to scan and add to its training data, only to destroy those books once they ve been uploaded. It s inevitable that some AI-generated content will seep into these incomprehensibly large data sets.