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A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

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  1. nearlyepic · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. adriand · · focus · HN ↗
      Ouch. Have a little compassion. It is not easy running a small business, even less so when you've got a baby FFS!

      > "At 4 a.m., I was holding my pump on my lap and replying to this person, 'I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it that way,'" she told me. "I was so into typing this message that I produced so much milk, it was dripping down my legs because I overflowed the pump."

      Also, it's one thing to dislike AI to the point where it "kills the mood" (for you) when you see an AI-generated poster, so you stop visiting that particular coffee shop. It's something else entirely to threaten the business owner.

      1. TheSkyHasEyes · · focus · HN ↗
        Agreed.

        A small business in my city made a poster using stick men and simple drawings(because of the topic at hand) and people loved it.

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