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# Why AI-generated restaurant menus all look eerily the same
- URL: https://fabric.media/why-ai-generated-restaurant-menus-all-look-eerily-the-same/
- Published: 2026-09-04T14:40:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-04T14:40:34.000Z
- Description: Restaurants are turning to generative AI for menu images, but the illustrations share an oddly smooth, symmetrical look. Reality Defender’s CTO says the models drew on a narrow “pleasing” corpus, so results resemble a Chili’s menu from 2015.
- Author: Fabric.Media Editorial
- Tags: Creators, AI, Amanda Silberling, AI-generated restaurant menus look wrong

*Signal from* [*TechCrunch (AI)*](https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/?ref=fabric.media) *·* [*Amanda Silberling*](https://fabric.media/tag/by-amanda-silberling/) *·* [*read the original*](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/the-sameness-problem-behind-those-unappetizing-ai-generated-menus/?ref=fabric.media)*.*