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Ridiculous, but it’s also like fast food commercials. If you think the meal you’re getting from Burger King will look anything like the commercial you saw, you might just also believe these AI Uber Eats menu photos.
Yeah, but people expect it to look like what's supposed to be a picture of someone else's...
That was literally the whole point of user uploaded pics, to see what you actually get
Now peoples expectations will be higher, and initially they'll order when they wouldn't have. But it won't take many orders for someone to always feel disappointed and associate that with the app.
This is a very short term focused change, and it's not gonna work out well
Effect No. 1: vendors gets review bombed with "looks nothing like what I ordered".
Effect No. 2: Sales drop.
I don't know. The quality of the food you get through a lot of these delivery services is already much worse than going to the restaurant yourself, whether it's from fast food chains or independent restaurants. Even food from restaurants that are otherwise good often arrives cold/mushy/damaged. And yet, food delivery services get a lot of customers...