You're definitely right, the food looks so phony. The thing that's wild is half the time they make a flyer, there's only bricks of yellow text on a black background that's too much info to read. I'm visiting San Francisco right now and saw a pizza shop last night that their entire menu was AI garbage and was so shocked how prevalent it's become.

I used to work in a wine store. Customers would always joke “hahaha i just pick them by the label 😂” and I would always say. That’s not stupid, wine is about aesthetics. Someone who makes good wine will appreciate the value of a good label. And the inverse is true, people with poor taste won’t care about their label, but they won’t be able to make good wine, either.

I’m saying judge a book by its cover. How else are you gonna know what’s in the book without looking at its cover??

I had a friend in Uni who studied food science. She went on to work in marketing a a sculptor for advertisements. They sculptures were hand crafted to look delicious but would have been completely inedible, if anyone was stupid enough to eat them.

It is an art form and unfortunately a lot of people fail to appreciate art.