# Ghost Kitchens Are Advertising AI-Generated Food on DoorDash and Grubhub

Source: https://www.404media.co/ghost-kitchens-are-advertising-ai-generated-food-on-doordash-and-grubhub
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ghost-Kitchens-Are-Advertising-AI-Generated-Food-on-DoorDash-and-Grubhub?index=0x65df0867c6060a95d43158076a9901e6a6df02991273dac0ac81d7db5b21fa52817da0aa
Submitted by misha on 2024-02-28 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

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Dozens of ghost kitchens, which sell food only for delivery through apps like DoorDash and Grubhub, are promoting their dishes with AI-generated images that do not match the food they sell. Some images show physically impossible items, which the text attributes to faulty AI, and unlike typical food staging, the pictures show food that does not exist. The issue came to light after a reader tipped off the writer about strange-looking pasta from a DoorDash business called Pasta Lovers, following an earlier story on AI-generated food images on Instacart recipes.

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Dozens of Ghost kitchens, restaurants that serve food exclusively by delivery on apps like DoorDash and Grubhub, are selling food that they promote to customers with AI-generated images. It’s common for advertisements to stage or edit pictures of food to make it look more enticing, but in these cases the ghost kitchens are showing people pictures of food that literally doesn’t exist, and looks nothing like the actual items they’re selling, sometimes because the faulty AI is producing physically impossible food items.

I first learned about AI-generated images on food delivery services last week after publishing a story about AI-generated images of food on Instacart recipes. Initially, a reader had tipped me about some strange looking pasta from a business on DoorDash called Pasta Lovers.

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