A screenshot of two AI-generated images on Just Eat - one of chip muffins - a muffin with potato chips in them, and the other of a pint glass of fizzy drink with an egg and bacon in it
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A chip muffin and bacon and egg soda - menu items well known in parts of the UK, but not to the AI which made this

ByLaura CressTechnology reporter
  • Published2 hours ago

Just Eat has apologised after it was ridiculed online over a series of mistakes with AI-generated pictures for some of its restaurants' food items.

The online food delivery platform had been testing out the tech to showcase food which didn't have images yet - but not all turned out as planned.

Instead the AI invented several bizarre concoctions, from bacon and eggs floating in a glass of cola - a confusion between "soda" and "soda bread" - to chips poking out of muffins.