A new restaurant and cafe that opened on Haight Street in the former Citrus Club spot, which closed in April after three decades, received backlash over the “slop” food images featured on its AI-generated storefront menu.
As we first noted in Sunday links, Grind & Unwind owners AJ and Lyndsey Lozano, a Marin couple who opened the cafe in May, said they were blindsided after AI-generated photos of sandwiches, pastries, and coffee drinks displayed in their front window became the subjects of a widely shared Reddit thread mocking the images as unappetizing “AI slop,” as SFGate reports.
Commenters compared the uncanny-appearing food to everything from loofahs and lungs to the cordyceps mushrooms from The Last of Us, while others questioned why a new business on Haight Street didn’t research the neighborhood a little more…