I'd expect the picture to be an idealized, perfected version of the food. That's how marketing works. But somewhere in there should be the actual food even if it's cold, sprayed with glycerin, and under studio lighting.

An AI image isn't anything to do with the actual dish. That's too far removed from the reality to be considered fair.

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phoghed 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

Motor oil on a perfect pancake from a batch of 10 that they put 100x more effort into for the photo?

Sign me up, I love it.

AI image of a pancake because the small business owner doesn’t have a Kellog’s budget?

Fuck that guy, I hope his business fails

	▲	jackb4040 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that it was the same business making the image and the actual food. Now basically every business will have the same abomination of a cheeseburger on their menu because they all prompted the same thing, and as a result customers lose that signal. So defensively we have to assume the worst, but when we actually do that (or god forbid talk to other people about it) online weirdos like yourself start jumping in front of the bullet.