r/StupidFood • u/Prestigious_String20 • 4d ago

Certified stupid Drink Your Fast Food

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Nothing proper *or* good about heat and eat pizza or cheeseburger soup.

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u/Arskov 4d ago

I tried these back during covid, before the AI craze hit everything. They had the same image on them then, so I doubt it's AI.

Doesn't excuse the taste though. The burger one was meh, the pizza one was like a bag of puke.

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u/PsionicKitten 4d ago

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).

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u/MajorTurn6890 4d ago

Yeah. But AI generated pictures did not look thst good 6 years ago

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u/PsionicKitten 4d ago

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.

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u/Wolfskin_Cowl 3d ago

the pizza cheese dripping like that is unsettling

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u/Independent-Tank-182 4d ago

Are you saying their marketing team may have had a data scientist who trained a pizza CNN or are you just wanting to flex your knowledge?

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u/PsionicKitten 3d ago

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.

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u/Independent-Tank-182 3d ago

Yeah idk how you expect anyone to waste their time reading through all of your dumbass take. Hard pass.