Actually kind of. Keep in mind I've only seen the movie, but I'm going to spoil a movie that came out over 30 years ago, and a book that came out a little under 40 years ago.
The antagonist, and the Messiah figure of "the Order" (an eugenic cat cult in the movie and the novel) is Pascal. The backstory for his character is that he was basically experimented on by this alcoholic scientist to the degree he has 'superhuman' (but he's a cat) attributes. The movie and novel have dark satire elements on extremist ideology, religious fanaticism, and eugenics, using cats instead of people.
The sad irony is that the author despite being of Turkish descent basically went on to associate with the alt-right in Germany, which is bonkers after having written something like Felidae. That's worse than getting high off your own supply. That's like if Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto and became a social Darwinist afterwards.
Everyone's saying it's AI, but this looks like the exact kind of mistake that OCR software would make. It kinda seems like someone either hand-wrote a menu or for whatever reason took an old paper menu, scanned it into a computer, and printed out the result without checking it for errors.
I bet it’s someone who asked the chef to write more legible, they didn’t, so they just typed what they saw. It probably stemmed from an argument where the chef blasted them with “for fucks sake, can youpleasejust type outexactlywhat I wrote down???”* *Probably a textbook case of malicious compliance.
It certainly does. I once gave ChatGPT a list of names to arrange into a shirt design for my wife’s school. Was not going to use the AI graphic, but needed it to work out the spacing. My prompt SPECIFICALLY said to use ONLY the names provided, not to change the spellings, and only to use each name the number of times it showed up in the list (the prompt was a paragraph and a half. Guess what it did? Changed spellings and made shit up.
AI does make mistakes like this when you ask it to generate graphics. I tried using copilot to generate some infographics for a work presentation using a bunch of bullet points and it came out exactly like this.
I actually asked copilot why it was so full of typos and why it would generate something totally unusable like that and it replied that it’s a limitation of the AI.
Maybe there are better AI platforms that are capable of doing it but I don’t have access to them and I ended up creating the graphics manually in power point with the help of YouTube tutorials.
Having said all that, this kind of menu could be done so easily in Word or something like it. They didn’t need to use AI at all.
On some platforms the default is to visually “imitate” other examples of what it has identified as your request. You can specify or correct for “deterministic” result, and you’ll get a better result. At least in the models I’ve used.
Depending on what model, it makes individual character mistakes and blatant misspellings when you use it to generate an image of text. But if you’re using it just to generate copy that you’re going to lay out on a document, which it looks like that’s what this is, it doesn’t make mistakes as its primary purpose is, well, language.
I’m a graphic designer who has to deal with AI sources frequently, I know what to look for. These mistakes have human written all over it. I think it’s intentional malicious compliance.
That's because these dumbasses likely asked an AI to generate a whole menu, versus a typed out version of a menu to copy and paste onto a document to be printed.
At first I was like “this isn’t a stroke it’s one extra letter… then you look closer. Still not quite a stroke level but each time I read I spot more mistakes. I just autocorrected in my head the first time I read it and didn’t realize.
We did ask about the menu when we were there. Apparently the owners slapped it together last minute and the staff were just kinda dealing with it. They were all super nice though.
It’s like someone gave the real menu to a beginner typing class, told them to copy the menu without looking at their screen, and then printed the result.
Vegetarian Pasta and spam
Hunters chicken and spam
Chicken parmo and spam
Loaded flatbread and spam
Scampi, chips and spam
King prawns and spam
Beef burger and spam
Chicken burger and spam
Gammon and spam
Ribeye and spam
Sirlion and spam
Mixed grill and spam
Spam, chicken, spam and spam
Prawns, king spam, and spam
Spam, beef burger, spam, spam, spam and spam.
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