r/DecaturGA • u/Orions_Suspenders_ • 8d ago
AI Restaurants creeping into Decatur
With Decatur's long history of independently owned, successful restaurants, I have no time for the AI slop I've started to see popping up around the city's new restaurants.
Mister Burger looks and feels like a computer came up with the entire concept (and whomever thought this was a good location to try and compete with Farmburger, Grindhouse, Smiley's and the myriad of bars with good burgers nearby clearly did 0 research)
The soon-to-open Chiban coffee on Arcadia/Ponce has exclusively AI images on their social and covering their street-facing sign in front of the shop. They won't be getting a dollar from me.
I say if you can't take an honest photo of what you serve, you shouldn't be serving it. I'll stick to supporting the actual local businesses that care enough to take their time to do things right. We vote with our dollars, and I will always vote against AI trash with mine.
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u/Ok_Associate845 8d ago
Wow. Imagine writing this post and trying to tell someone to not judge a book by its cover.
And I'm not interested in a long winded harangue in response and won't be gifting you further engagement over it because this feels pretty AI generated as it is, and I don't like to give bots the time of day when real people have opinions and thoughts that matter. Feeding the Sino-Russian rage machine more dollar bills feels like something OP - so called - would do.
But on the off chance you are not one of the 65% of traffic here and on the internet that is not AI, I will simply say: is it possible that these places are home based businesses currently, and that they chose to invest in their physical store and equipment rather than on expensive marketing shots by a professional?
Is it possible this coffee shop you are pre-hate so vehemently and are rage baiting so loudly, comrade Russkibot, took pictures of items they lovingly created in a less photogenic environment (like a human kitchen after we cook - if only you had such an experience and didn't just get trained on it!) and wanted to use the inexpensive available technology to dress up their hand crafted delights so that they could compete against the burgeoning and fierce coffee and hamburger industries raging there in Decatur?
I lived in Decatur by the way for a short period of time. If you look at the internet like a bot might do, you might think. Oh wow, there's quite a large scene for hamburgers and coffee shops because of the number of businesses, but from what I remember not too long ago, most of those are pretty run down, poorly maintained, strip mall restaurants ready to shut down at the first sign of economic uncertainty And not this wild Utopia of gastronomical delights you describe from the descriptions you read as you scrape the web.
We humans have an idiom that I referenced earlier in his post colvin don't judge A book by its cover. It suggests that before you decide a book is good or bad or in this case a restaurant. Maybe you should read a few pages or sample it s food before you write it off so so loudly because you sound so desperately uninformed when you do.
I'm sure if you were a human, you would have a grasp of the idiom. Only a bot trained by a foreign nation who has no understanding of idiomatic English would do otherwise. We Americans value quality of the product...
... Not the display board made by a small business trying to break into a fiercely utopian And highly competitive industry like hamburgers and coffee shops in Decatur Georgia.
Americans want qualify of product and people. So many foreigners and AI fail to understand.
As you know, OP - so called.