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

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quietsegfault · 1789601202 · focus · HN ↗
This is so weird. Small businesses like delis and pizza parlors and Chinese food joints have been using stock photography and pre-made advertisements for decades. That ageless “GYRO” poster, FFS. People have lost their absolute minds over this.
It’s disgusting and unhinged behavior to threaten and bully people about this. Who cares how a local cafe made their menu? I truly don’t understand what’s going through people’s minds who attack people like this.
1. potsandpans · 1789609344 · focus · HN ↗
  It's not about ai anymore. This is the new culture war.
  As shitty as this is, I'm glad that it's happening because things like this erode the shamers credibility.
  There were plenty of histrionic COVID warriors that tried to ruin lives and businesses. I bet the venn diagram of those people is close to a circle.

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