I’ve even seen “AI enthusiasts” admit that AI generated images of food look bad. Also, it’s not like you need to hire a graphics designer and professional photographer to take a decent looking photo of a burger and drop it into a Word document, so it’s not even like it’s saving them money.
So who the fuck is this for?
I think it is more that they think that they are “clever” or “gaming the system” by not doing any food photography and not needing to pay a professional photographer. They think they’ve found a shortcut to success because they don’t realise that saving a few hundred on a food photographer will cost them thousands since their AI slop pictures aren’t appealing to people.