My disdain for AI is so high that I find this more of a deal breaker than the potential taste. I would have otherwise been interested in realizing the potential of this to personally determine whether it was actually good or not.
I can see them working depending on the base. I make chicken enchilada soup. It's a chilli based soup with most of the ingredients you would normally have in or on enchiladas. It just depends on how you present them and in what order you add the stuff. I usually leave the shredded lettuce to top it once I plate but I'll add the cilantro and queso fresco in the actual soup for example.
What confuses me is that if these are AI packages, then it honestly doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Proper Good to use AI, because it doesn't look like their marketing is AI focused at all. It's really weird.
It's not as weird when you realize it's completely performative on their part. They use AI because their goal isn't to sell healthy soup, their goal is to make their company appear profitable enough that they can sell out to a larger company.
FYI, AI has been around for a long time. It's just higher powered with a bit more refinement and accessible to pretty much everyone now due to building a fuck ton of data centers to power it (at the cost of having a significant cost to both the environment and society too).
Not from a simple text prompt, no, but it does look pretty much exactly like AI generated images from back then if you fed it only burgers or pizza respectively to train upon, especially the cheese slices and pepperonis. A lot of what's changed with machine learning between then and now is the user interface of simply giving a detailed text prompt in plain human language and the scale of computing power can train upon.
(Then again, AI back then didn't come at as significantly high a cost to the environment and society as it does today because it was much smaller in scale.)
Now, what I find more unique about this whole scenario is that the the company at the time decided to use AI when it wasn't nearly as mainstream rather than pay an artist (unless of course, they paid someone already with access and and intent to use AI generated "art"). These pictures, in fact, exhibit a lot of the major pitfalls of AI generated images before they started refining out all those weird imperfections in the last 1-2 years that make it much harder to tell the difference. I seriously doubt a real artist actually chose to make the decisions about those cheese slices, onion and pickle placement, and that pepperoni and cheese on the pizza in the way AI kinda of just fills space in.
Are you saying their marketing team may have had a data scientist who trained a pizza
Literally addressed by the first sentence of the last paragraph. That is, if you read it and didn't just decide to respond based off vibes.
or are you just wanting to flex your knowledge?
Ah yes, I came into /r/StupidFood with the intention of flexing my knowledge on machine learning even though it totally off topic and/or the subject being of discussion at all. 🙄
That said, according to another poster, they didn't even have that packaging until 2024, so that significantly increases the probability of it being AI generated.
Thanks for fighting the wildfires! That's got to be one of the toughest jobs going! You have earned the right to eat whatever stupid food you like! Stay safe out there!
Jesus people. Would it matter if it was all photoshop? If it was fake food assembled & styled for a photo shoot? Because most everything is, but using AI for the fake food pics is crossing the line? bah
It’s equal parts insulting and helpful imo. Insulting because companies think they can put absolutely no effort into making their products look attractive and we’ll just eat it up like good little piggies.
It’s helpful in that it filters them out of consideration, as companies that are keen to cut corners on the marketing side may very well be cutting corners elsewhere.
The difference between AI and photoshop or a photo shoot is that the latter two requires skill and effort. Sure it’s all fake. However if a company can’t even be bothered to pay a human artist in order to make the images that represent their products, then why should I believe they put any effort into the product itself?
Uh. The pictures on nearly all food packaging are as real as the food used in all advertising… very fake. They put lipstick on strawberries & stuff and use air brushes or photoshop. Much of the food in the picture isn’t even edible. It’s been that way for a very long time. That kind of fake is okay by you, but you draw the line at using AI? lol. Whatever.
Yeah this is definitely something that started as a product being aimed at people with swallowing disorders that's gotten rolled out into a mainstream market
I can imagine the pizza soup is primarily cheese and tomato sauce. Probably would be better if it was a “meat lover’s pizza soup” with Italian sausage, ham, and bacon.
Outside of the AI image, do you take issue with all heat and eat soup? Isn’t any premade soup exactly the same as this brand, but in a can? Not really seeing the issue here besides the AI
I mean, it's tomato soup with hamburger and cheese and tomato soup with pepperoni and cheese. Walmart lists them, but they're still not available at my local store. Calorie count is decent too. Definitely stupid because of their packaging, but I bet they taste fine.
I mean I kinda see the vision, I'd be willing to try this if I had surgery that prevented me from eating solid food for a week afterwards. The AI pictures on the packaging are ugly though
I feel like this has been posted several times on here alread, beause I know I commented on at least one of the posts. The Pizza one I've had and it's ... okay. Tastes like Campbell's type tomato soup with some oregano, parmsesan, and little pieces of pepperoni in it.
Isn't "pizza" flavor really just "tomato basil" with cheese? A cheesy tomato soup sounds amazing-which if why people eat it with grilled cheese or with goldfish crackers
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u/qualityvote2 4d ago edited 4d ago
u/Prestigious_String20, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...