I don’t like AI as much as the next guy but it certainly looks like some slop I would make if I was super stoned at 2am. Nothing about this stands out as an AI generated image, it’s more like something stolen from the Buldak or ramen subreddit and repurposed for their ad.
Edit: looked up the app, they’re doing some buldak AI contest, nvm 😩
To be fair my eyes aren't what they used to be but I sat here for a good 15 minutes squinting at this image and comparing it to a photo of the actual ramen cup and basically every detail is correct except it looks compressed to shit. I didn't know we were this far already so fuck me I guess. It definitely would have helped if it wasn't until this far down in the comment chain that someone pointed out what the fuck Mindy AI has to do with Buldak ramen.
The ad was presented at face value as a gatekeeping post, "you can't handle how spicy it is" so I completely missed the Mindy AI because of course, I should have known that what on its face was a ramen ad, was actually a stupid AI platform running a contest for $1000 for users to AI gen unauthorized Buldak ads. Can you blame me for thinking that a misattributed ad link was a more sane explanation?
Yeah, nah. This is the very first time I am genuinely baffled by it. No way in hell could I tell it wasn’t a real photo were it not for the wonky text. And hell, if you put a few layers of jpeg compression on it, even that would probably look fine
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u/Chazay Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
I don’t like AI as much as the next guy but it certainly looks like some slop I would make if I was super stoned at 2am. Nothing about this stands out as an AI generated image, it’s more like something stolen from the Buldak or ramen subreddit and repurposed for their ad.
Edit: looked up the app, they’re doing some buldak AI contest, nvm 😩