A food app let AI draw its menus. It put a fry-up in a glass of cola
Just Eat has been using AI to make pictures for takeaway dishes that had no photo. It read the menus a little too literally.
In Northern Ireland a "breakfast soda" is a soda bread sandwich with bacon, sausage and egg. The AI drew a pint of cola with the breakfast floating in it. Scampi came out as sushi. A "garlic bread plane" became an aeroplane made of bread. A wine with watermelon in its tasting notes got real watermelon chunks in the glass.
Customers shared the pictures, and Just Eat has apologised, started removing them and paused the trial. It says every image was checked by a person first.
Why it matters: more of what we see before we buy is drawn by AI, not photographed. The funny mistakes are easy to spot. The ones that look normal are not.
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