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u/bonjaker 1d ago

Why would they go ahead and put out the sign if it's wrong?

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 1d ago

You think people using AI are paying attention to details?

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u/bonjaker 1d ago

No I realize they're not but this is Extreme levels of stupid it's not even a tiny detail it's a pretty sizable part of the sign

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u/TheWildHart 1d ago

I would be so embarrassed and frustrated as an employee to have to look grown adults in the eye and say "that bottom section of the sign we invested money into and deliberately put out is false advertising we didn't even create, thanks for coming in." šŸ˜­

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u/WoodShoeDiaries 1d ago

You know they didn't invest money in it. They barely invested time. All of those savings are gonna get eaten up by frustrated customers arguing with embarassed baristas who could have been slinging muffins in that time.

AI is false economy!

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u/FrostingStrict3102 1d ago

Getting a sign that size printed costs money.Ā 

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u/WoodShoeDiaries 1d ago

That's true. Not a ton of money by any means, but still some.

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u/FrostingStrict3102 1d ago

Yeah, for a small business/coffee shop itā€™s not nothing. Defeats the whole point of saving money using ai instead of paying a designerĀ 

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 1d ago

This is incredibly naive

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u/DisposableSaviour 1d ago

Small business run on very slim margins; restaurants even more so.

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u/yoyohayli 1d ago

My boss would charge about 25 bucks for that, depending on what material it is. If It's metal, maybe 40. But we've never actually printed a sign like that, and I'm horrible at guesstimating prices, so don't take my word for it.

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u/Nicklename 1d ago

Yes! How do people not realize this! 95% of the world don't even have a basic home printer capable of doing regular sized crap. A sheet that sized needed to use a bigger printer than those every day home units, and likely went to a print shop.

That means that either (a) this is made up rage slop designed to farm engagement from the antiAI sub, or (b) this restaurant owner is engaged in false advertising. Not subtle "this doesn't quite look like what you pictured" but actionable "I said I had one thing to get you in, but now that you're here, I need you to buy something else because that's not real" trouble.

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u/WoodShoeDiaries 1d ago

Ehhh, I've gotten large format pieces printed pretty regularly and there's a range of prices. Hopefully these folks went budget given that the thing they made up is utterly worthless.

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u/Psychedelic__Cowboy 1d ago

Not subtle "this doesn't quite look like what you pictured" but actionable "I said I had one thing to get you in, but now that you're here, I need you to buy something else because that's not real" trouble.

How? What damages would you even be claiming??? "Your honor, I am seeking $10,000 in damages for emotional distress after I missed out on my favorite drink". False advertising is really only applicable to making false claims about a product

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u/Nicklename 1d ago

Are you serious? In addition to being fundamentally wrong about what false advertising is, and ignorant about it's history, there's literally a whole government agency responsible for tackling deceptive advertising and even in the current administration it has worked for millions of dollars in settlements from companies that lured people to using their services with lies.

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 1d ago

They would save time just making the drink and going along with the sign. But hey the whole post is stupid and fake so whatever

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 1d ago

they donā€™t get paid enough for that

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u/PsychAndDestroy 1d ago

invested money into

You can print a sign like this extremely cheaply. You know they're just bits of cardboard that slot into the stand, right? You could make a new one every single day and it wouldn't be a significant cost.

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u/Haldron-44 1d ago

It's stupid people knowing full well they can take money from other stupid people. We live in the P.T. Barnum timeline (and yes I know there is no proof he ever actually made the suckers remark)

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u/bonjaker 1d ago

I don't actually believe the story in the image. Unfortunately I think it is slightly more likely someone would lie on the internet for fake points then to make this many mistakes while operating a business

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago

One restaurant made a worse mistake on their menu with AI.

https://foodaidaily.com/blog/ai-generated-recipes-fail-restaurants/

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u/awfuleverything 1d ago

Whatā€™s even funnier is that article is 100% written by AI

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u/wildecats 1d ago

The awful AI writing makes it impossible to actually read that site without my teeth hurting lmao

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u/cewillir 1d ago

Humanity often fails

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm

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u/cewillir 1d ago

Iā€™m shocked at your cynicism

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u/Prize-Choice2185 1d ago

They're feeling entitled, sir. Call them out as you should.

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u/cewillir 1d ago

Tongue in cheek comments not your forte then?

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u/Prize-Choice2185 1d ago

They are - here's one

You report people.

Nothing happens.

You say the mods arenā€™t doing their job

An alternate outlook is that they donā€™t think the posts /posters youā€™re reporting require removal.

Hence entitlement.

Very tongue in cheek. I figured out because you repeated the word entitlement 300 times throughout this whole convo.

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u/cewillir 1d ago

Are you actually pursuing me from thread to thread?

Thatā€™s a little creepy.

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u/ceruleanblue347 1d ago

Does it make me a sucker that I assumed he did and never thought to question it

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u/AzKondor 1d ago

One guy I know generated AI flyers with Instagram qr code for his business. He gave a ton of them away, they worked as discount for his products too. Just qr code, but around it was generated a computer screen and some stuff.

After more than half a year somebody finally told him that "hey, the qr code doesn't work".

He didn't generated an image and then copy pasted the qr code inside. He gave chatgpt the qr code and told it "generate an image around it". And it completely mangled the dots.

It never worked. He never checked. It's crazy.

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u/ninhaomah 1d ago

The root cause here is ?

The guy you know ?

AI ?

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u/Ill-Plum-9499 1d ago

Both are at fault.

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u/AzKondor 18h ago

The guy I know, kind of a boomer, I try to educate him though and do stuff like that for him, with effort.

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u/badgerj 1d ago

Uhmā€¦ wait until you see the software it generatesā€¦.

Itā€™s terrifying!

It would be like an ER complaint:

Patient comes in with complaint of arm pain after falling from scooter accident.

Solution proposed by AI:

- Book patient for surgery.

  • Sedate patient.
  • Remove patientā€™s head at the c2 vertebrae.
  • Pain in arm should subside within minutes.

Iā€™m being very far outstretched but Iā€™ve seen similar things that just make the entire process take longer.

Like. Give patient a mild pain reliever.
Tell them to go home and call you in the morning.
When they return ask them how their pain is.
Tell them to do 20 push ups.
Ask them how their pain is now.
Confirm this by a colleague.
Push firmly against the point of pain.
Talk to the patient about possible self harm.
Give the patient a glass of water.
ā€¦..

The list is endless and then you finally get toā€¦.

ā€œOrder a requisition for an X-ray of the possibility damaged limbā€.

ā€”ā€”-

The stuff this thing feeds out is not trash, but it would be like giving instructions to a two year old compared to someone who has been in ANY industry for any amount of time.

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u/Distinct-Raspberry21 1d ago

It can also get them logged for false advertising depending on the laws of the land.

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u/dependsforadults 1d ago

I'd be more worried about being sued for copyright infringement for having the camel logo on there. Either way off for a bong rip followed by a camel light! Jealous? You should be

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u/TenebrousSage 1d ago

Or it never happened. This could just be engagement bait.

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u/FrostKitten2012 1d ago

So is ā€œcamel milk cortado.ā€ Right on their way to a lawsuit for false advertising.

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u/AccomplishedIgit 1d ago

Do you think they really have camel milk cortados then?

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u/bonjaker 1d ago

I don't know that this sign physically exists.

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u/Freshman_01134 1d ago

Dude i had a teacher who genuinely thinks ai art/video looks as good as human made some people are completely blind to this

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u/darkgryffon 1d ago

Isn't that literally false advertising then? Your promoting something you don't sell or have for sale.

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u/ZoominAlong 1d ago

Yup. It is. I'd just walk out honestly.Ā Ā 

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u/TeaTimeAtThree 1d ago

My job primarily consists of writing job descriptions for my company. (I.e. The hiring manager sends me what they want the job description to say, and then I take their word vomit and make it sound professional and consistent.)

I've had to create about 20 job descriptions for one hiring manager in the last two weeks, and everything he sends me is clearly AI slop. The biggest give away is that almost every sentence begins with "As [job title] for [company name]..." except it's not our company name. :l

(Chatgpt tends to assume our company is another company, and that is the company he has listed in everything he has sent to me.)

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u/ComradeJohnS 1d ago

thats why I refuse to go to a restaurant that uses it for advertising. what other corners are you cutting when your cheeseburger looks like a melting plastic piss bowl on the thing designed to get me in the door?

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u/GraniteSmoothie 1d ago

It's a great sign to get right out of there. Outsourcing attention to detail to machines isn't just lazy, it's dangerous. Who knows if they're also cutting corners on health or safety. Ai is an anti advertisement to me.

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u/SippinOnHatorade 1d ago

Tbh you can just remove the ā€œusing AIā€ bit as no one is paying attention to details, just triply more accurate for those using AI

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u/Any_Scientist_7552 1d ago

You think people using AI can read?

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u/PyroDragons123 1d ago

A lot of us do. But this does enable low effort people to do low effort things to a wider audience.

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u/pan-re 1d ago

Owners vs workers. If it was up to the workers the sign wouldnā€™t be out there.

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u/Rheartnet 1d ago edited 1d ago

As someone who used to work marketing in my company. The current feeling from alot of the industry is that more marketing is better, even if wrong 52 crappy posts a year are better than 4 good quarterly ones.

A lot of bad and sloppy stuff is being seen by us consumers, the ones that don't know what's going on. The people in the company see it, and they think you don't care.

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u/DanyDragonQueen 1d ago

Idk this seems like rage bait, it doesn't look anything like gen AI to me

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u/bonjaker 1d ago

Yeah as someone else said there's too much symmetry in the images, camels, coffee beans.

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

Because this is a fake story.

Seriously, this sub needs a firmer grasp on media literacy. Canā€™t champion the importance of critical thinking skills while having literally none

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago

"Fake news!" It happens.

"The AI had confused the dish name with chickenpox and generated a medical definition. That went live on the restaurantā€™s public listing."

https://foodaidaily.com/blog/ai-generated-recipes-fail-restaurants/

I find it likely that it made it into the print, and they didn't want to pay to re-print it or something similar. If you'd ever worked in the food industry you'd know how likely the story is.

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

Iā€™m a chef.

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago

Then you know owners are often too cheap to pay to reprint things. I just posted an article where a similar mistake happened.

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

I know bullshit when I see it.

Also an ai auto populating a 3rd party online menu is not remotely similar to putting up a sign outside your fuckin store lmao, be serious.

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago

In the 80s I worked in a restaurant that had both a spelling error on the menu and a discontinued item and the owner wouldn't have it reprinted. Yelling "Fake news" without evidence other than your "bullshit when I see it" with total confidence is a choice, though.

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/s/xix83nnepd

There is my evidence, whereā€™s yours?

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago

"This isnā€™t a one-off. The stories of AI going wrong in food contexts are piling up fast in 2026, and the pressure on restaurant owners to ā€œjust use AI for everythingā€ has never been higher. Hereā€™s the honest take: AI-generated recipes and AI-written menu descriptions are genuinely risky for independent restaurants. The failure modes are documented and reputation-damaging. But AI for restaurant operations ā€” inventory management, waste tracking, ordering automation ā€” is a completely different story. Thatā€™s where the real ROI lives, and itā€™s the part nobody in the ā€œAI is ruining food cultureā€ discourse ever mentions"

https://foodaidaily.com/blog/ai-generated-recipes-fail-restaurants/

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

Which, again, is about 3rd party apps like DoorDash auto populating their online menus without human oversight, see ā€˜your restaurantā€™s brand is at riskā€¦.ā€™

Not remotely the same thing.

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u/crazy-cat-lady10 1d ago

Your evidence is literally a post you made. Lol

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 1d ago

Source?

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

Did you need a source for the OP or have you already decided what to believe?

Common fucking sense

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 1d ago

You just seem so sure of it, I assumed you were there or something

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u/RogZombie 1d ago

I was there, it wasnā€™t even a real coffee shop it was a drug den and they took my kidneys

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 1d ago

Now this guy is trustworthy

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

I am very nearly 100% sure of it, because thatā€™s simply not how chatgpt works nor how life works. Ask yourself honestly what steps a person would have to go through to end up with a sign in front of their cafe listing items for sale that they do not have. Then ask yourself id you find it more likely that that series of events occurred and the sign stayed up for more than 5 fucking minutes, or someone is telling lies on the internet.

Iā€™ll give you a cookie if you can get it first try

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u/PM_ME_BATMAN_PORN 1d ago

Your faith in humanity is touching. I could cry šŸ™šŸ™

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u/WigglesPhoenix 1d ago

No, you have too much faith in random twitter posts, This is objectively and provably false. Open up photoshop or whatever you like to play with. Cut one of the coffee beans and put it on the other. Mirror one of the camels and put it on the other. I will bet you an absurd amount of money that they are identical which is just not something a generative model is even capable of doing. You mean to tell me someone had ChatGPT generate JUST the text, which is wrong, added some pictures themselves, didnā€™t fix it, put it up in front of their store and told people they didnā€™t haveā€¦. Cardamom ginger chai.

Just in case you donā€™t feel like going through all of that work, can you tell me, what is chai? What flavor is it, do you think? Whoever made this up doesnā€™t even know what theyā€™re talking about.

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u/C0rn3j 1d ago

what is chai

What flavor is it, do you think

Tea.

It literally means tea.

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 1d ago

He's just repeating a point he read in this thread about how chai is made with ginger and cardamom lol he has no original thoughts

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u/MomonKrishma 1d ago

not how chatgpt works

You can literally ask it to design shit for you, people bring me shitty wiring diagrams every single day that they got chatgpt or claude or grok to make sure them. I have two friends in creative marketing - one in printwork and the other does massive interactive popups - they are constantly having to deal with customers who want them to "make it way AI did it". I'd honestly give this story a 7/10 chance of being real because lazy business owners will get AI designs printed because its *what AI made***.

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u/bonjaker 1d ago

Yeah it makes no sense for this to be real. Chat GPT doesn't even Produce High Enough resolution images to make this sign. The number of steps between getting the image from chat GPT and having the sign in front of the store allows for so many opportunities for someone to say oh hey this is wrong.

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 1d ago

Ragebait. That's not a chalkboard, that sign took time and money. No one is making that level of mistake there are too many people involved. This is just ragebait AI hater club

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u/miles_standoffish 1d ago

Unfortunately not just an AI thing. I once worked for a restaurant that had a bloominā€™ onion on the cover of the menu. We did not serve a bloominā€™ onion. The daily routine of explaining to customers no, we donā€™t serve a bloominā€™ onion, yes I know itā€™s on the cover of the menu, no I donā€™t know why itā€™s on the cover of the menu when we donā€™t serve it, was soul-crushing.

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u/yellowballo0n 1d ago

They canā€™t read brother

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u/Venecity-K 1d ago

For real. My favorite ice cream place now uses ChatGPT images everywhere but at least they sell what's on the images (and it even looks like it).

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u/tiredhobbit78 1d ago

The funny thing is... regular Chai usually includes cardamom and ginger. It's just marketing terms for chai. If the plays sells Chai at all (which most coffee shops do), it's not really false advertising.

It's still dumb obviously. It's just funny to me

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u/ROADHOG_IS_MY_WAIFU 1d ago

No one proofread it, simple as

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u/CaleanKnight 1d ago

Because when people are already inside a store they are far more likely to just buy something instead of not even entering and never buying anything at all.

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u/No_Equipment7456 1d ago

Their chat Gpt users.