The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

AI-generated restaurant menus often feature unnaturally perfect and symmetrical food illustrations due to training on narrow, aesthetically pleasing datasets, leading to visuals that feel off or artificial. This phenomenon, linked to how large language and diffusion models learn from existing data, can result in repetitive or unrealistic imagery, sometimes described as 'model collapse' when AI content overly influences training data.