Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule

Just Eat has apologised after it was ridiculed online over a series of mistakes with AI-generated pictures for some of its restaurants' food items.

The online food delivery platform had been testing out the technology to showcase food which didn't have images yet - but not all turned out as planned.

Instead the AI ​​invented several bizarre concoctions, from bacon and eggs floating in a glass of cola - a confusion between "soda" and "soda bread" - to chips poking out of muffins.

A Just Eat spokesperson said the firm was "in the process of removing" the incorrect images, and would stop making more until the AI ​​was further developed.

"We work with tens of thousands of small restaurants on their food imagery, including funding professional local photographers," the spokesperson told the BBC.

"We've been trialling AI-enhanced images, and as with any new technology, it isn't always quite right the first time."

Source: BBC News Technology RSS (Open Press / Translated Full Text)