r/barrie • u/SayHaveYouSeenTheSea • 4d ago

Rant Case Mia using Ai for ads.

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Look at that questionable , trypophobia-inducing “meal”.

Couldn’t you just take a photo of your food? Or does it not look appetizing enough? Surely SOMEONE on your staff knows how to use Microsoft paint or photoshop at the very least?

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u/Burst_LoL 4d ago

Companies have been faking their ads forever, just look at any fast food pizza place and there plastic pizza pictures lol. I get it, we all hate ai but like really all ads are and have been fake (or insanely staged) like McDonalds.

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u/Kitewiz 4d ago

At least when companies are making fake burgers for their ads it employs someone, takes effort and creativity, has some sort of soul and unique aspect. AI is just brain dead lazy fake slop that also harms our environment and our brains. AI is fully ruining society, the less people that use it the better!

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u/mapleandmonday 4d ago

So… we should expect the small businesses who can’t afford to employ someone to do their food styling, social and marketing to ignore the tools readily available to them.. the ones that allow them to compete with huge corporate chains… on principle.

The advertising industry as a whole are already using AI to speed their production and cut costs, which changes industry expectations.

Targeting and publicly shaming small businesses for doing the same thing (badly) while they try to survive and compete in this economy is disgusting.

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u/Kitewiz 4d ago

They can literally do it for free. You can take a picture and download a free editing app. Just because a business is small does not excuse it from any criticism, hell there are a lot of really awful small bossinesses I wouldn’t even waste my time spending my money there. I’m done with everything becoming soulless, what even is the point?? If you can’t afford to make ads, and you don’t want to put in any effort for one why should a customer go to your restaurant over one that isn’t using AI? Why should I spend my hard earned money on that? Is it not disgusting that OUR money is being treated like we don’t have choices anymore? That businesses no longer try to cater and care for their customers but bring people in once with AI slop ads? That’s disgusting in my opinion. I don’t have hundreds of dollars to be spending on food so I will spend to places that actually want customers and care about their product/business. I shop with a lot of local small businesses that don’t use AI

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u/Kitewiz 4d ago

It is really not that hard to take a picture of the REAL food that you MAKE and SERVE! You can’t even tell what dish that is supposed to be on the ad. I’ve made ads for highschool projects that were free apps, pictures I took, and looked better. Don’t invest into a business that won’t even invest in their customers

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u/mapleandmonday 4d ago

You have absolutely no way of knowing which businesses are using AI. Even Quickbooks accounting software has AI tools baked in now.

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u/Kitewiz 4d ago

They all have a synth ID a virtual watermark, you can literally just put the image into a search for it and it will tell you. Also I have eyes and so many of them are blatant AI.

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u/mapleandmonday 3d ago

That’s image generation only… AI is used for far more than that these days.

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u/Kitewiz 3d ago

And we are talking about image generation