Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus




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The confluence of lingering cost pressures and advancing technology appears to be translating into a boom in smaller businesses’ deploying AI-designed graphics and logos.

 

Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus
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I call fake on the burrito. The whole "photo" is AI generated.

The NBC news report is probably AI generated as well.

 

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html
Updated on Sept. 3 at 1:37 p.m. ET — It appears that all AI service providers have now been restored.

In a statement provided to Mashable, Anthropic confirms that Claude is back online.

 

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Aside from the uncomfortable pauses and the characters' overall lack of emotion, this is pretty damn good and entertaining.

And it answers a question I've had for a very long time.

Bonus: I can't tell the difference between 'real' Data and AI Data. It seems that AI is excellent at simulating androids. Go figure.

 

Are you kidding, 30 seconds into the battle the Enterprise's reactor would start spewing steam, Data would malfunction, feelie lady would start to have a nervous breakdown, and the blue chick would go into heat and start trying to seduce the crew.

 

Big Cheese is destroying humanity.

 

Big Cheese is destroying humanity.

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As people increasingly just accept the "Search Assist" results that many browsers are producing, they are increasingly likely to just take flat wrong information at face value.

Example that I just encountered when replying to another thread to tell me how many light-minutes equals 1.7 billion km:




I didn't have any reason to question that result, but recognized that it was a bit more than one astronomical unit (the nominal distance from the Sun to the Earth). So I asked it how many kilometers is it from the Sun to the Earth:



That raised a huge red flag, so I went back to the first one and clicked the "More" button and got:




So, regardless of whether the number is the "Conclusion" is correct or not, it presented as the answer a value that was an order of magnitude different from its own conclusion!