Our countrys delivery apps are ruined by this. I remember reading that the apps actually encouraged vendors to use AI to make the pictures prettier, but of course with how easily the tool has become they are just straight out just puking AI food. Like 90% is just slop

I try to avoid restaurants with AI photos but at the same time I like to support small mom and pop joints, and I know that the ones with good actual photos of their foods are also the big restaurants

I’ve tried, many times. And almost always the hotels own website either didn’t have rooms available or the price was higher. So i stay with booking.com. Luckily never had a problem, and I like to book several free cancellation hotels til I have the travel dates set. But yeah I really wish I could get better prices directly, I even called a hotel in my last trip to japan and they had higher prices

My son also uses it frequently, he learnt that word from a Captain Underpants book or one of the other works from dav pilkey so maybe its from there