Just Eat's AI put bacon and eggs in a glass of cola — and it's exposed a much bigger problem with AI

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Just Eat has apologized after its new AI service designed to auto-generate images of food items got confused and put an image of bacon and eggs swimming in a glass of cola on the menu for a Northern Ireland restaurant. The restaurant, which offers a range of soda breads, ended up with sausages, bacon and fried eggs floating in pints of fizzy drinks instead of the Irish breakfast sandwiches they were supposed to represent.

These AI-generated images were part of a Just Eat trial for a new AI-powered system. The bacon and egg cola wasn’t the only hilarious image that the trial produced. You can see many other examples on the uknewestfoods Instagram page:

Referring to the AI photos, one Just Eat user on X said, “I swear if my salt and pepper chips come like this I’m going to cause murder”

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