Consumer AI Fatigue Is Overwhelming, Local Businesses Should Reconsider Use(residentnewsnetwork.com) |
Consumer AI Fatigue Is Overwhelming, Local Businesses Should Reconsider Use(residentnewsnetwork.com) |
Before AI, such designs were neutral to positive. AI versions can create extreme negative polarization.
Why take the risk?
A local restaurant here caught a LOT of flack about it when they did a reopening under new ownership with AI menus, and had to revise their menu very quickly to avoid losing too much potential business.
I also see event organizers complaining about nobody showing up to their event, refusing to acknowledge that maybe it's because the flyer they had Gemini make was unworthy of any note in a sea of identical flyers with the same tired aesthetic.
It may be the case that the typical customer doesn't notice or care.
AI chaps my ass when a restaurant that charges $125 per person for the prix fixe menu has it answering the phone. You're not Walmart. Don't be cheap. I don't mind if the host(ess) is on the phone briefly with another customer when I walk in because... I know that's going to be me one day calling.