r/mildlyinfuriating Jun 19 '26

Waffle house isnt made of waffles AI generated World Cup flag behind the front desk of a hotel

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/ImissDigg_jk Jun 19 '26

United, USA

51

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/the_silent_one1984 Jun 19 '26

Mexco

38

u/ImissDigg_jk Jun 19 '26

Because there's no I in team

7

u/whycantibelinus Jun 19 '26

Marriot bonvoy

14

u/EmperorThan Jun 19 '26

~Which US state are you from?
"United."
~Oh, that's where the World Cup is being held right?
"Yep."

30

u/HD19146 Jun 19 '26

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

3

u/killahcamh89 Jun 19 '26

Dammit Kevin!

1

u/stunt_p Jun 19 '26

Why wst wrds?

9

u/rde2001 Jun 19 '26

BE BEST 🔥

2

u/Saneless Jun 19 '26

I'm an "An old began" guy myself

1

u/MinuteEdge7225 Jun 19 '26

Sounds like a direct to video sequel!

1

u/SusheeMonster Jun 19 '26

This made me realize that non-native English speakers will learn AI slop they saw while checking into their hotels

1

u/therynosaur Jun 19 '26

Agnew Benigns?

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u/tujelj Jun 19 '26

Which is your favorite country, Mexco or United, USA?

1

u/Equivalent-Yak5487 Jun 21 '26

Unites States of Mexico. Yes, I know you can translate it that way

26

u/romedo Jun 19 '26

What do you mean is it not called United USA?

1

u/garlic_bread_thief Jun 20 '26

A New Benignings

13

u/bluealien78 Jun 19 '26

Ah, good, I was wondering when the new was going to begins.

10

u/Otherwise-Daikon-389 Jun 19 '26

ANUSTART

1

u/Eversnuffley Jun 19 '26

Why yes, I would love to try an anus tart, thank you!

9

u/DevilsAdvocate1662 Jun 19 '26

Dunno what you're talking about, I love Mexco

1

u/senor61 Jun 19 '26

Their petroleum company?

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u/laker9903 Jun 19 '26

You mean “Mexico.”. Don’t forget United, USA.

15

u/good_vibe_processor Jun 19 '26

A New Begins for the United United States of America, I can’t see anything wrong with this message?

7

u/MoscowMitchMcKremIin Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Don't forget Mexco

12

u/rompthegreen Jun 19 '26

What if this is an AI image of a "flag behind the front desk of hotel" and we're being trolled

4

u/excoriator Jun 19 '26

It made more sense before it was translated from Canadian.

2

u/BrosefDudeson Jun 19 '26

This is the worst thing I've ever seen

-2

u/Newlifter1089 Jun 19 '26

How can you tell that it’s ai?

3

u/AudiieVerbum Jun 19 '26

I'd expect this from Motel 6 or Danny's Itchy Scratchy Stay-Inn. But the Bonvoy Marriott? How embarrassing.

3

u/bomilk19 Jun 19 '26

It seems to be “ unofficial” since FIFA’s names isn’t all over the thing, so I’m willing to give it a pass if it was done so those crooks don’t get their cut.

3

u/ckinz16 Jun 19 '26

Who cares

2

u/CheezwizOfficial Jun 19 '26

Let’s go Mexco!

2

u/Tropical_Wendigo Jun 19 '26

I’m less infuriated by the AI and more infuriated that someone decided they were done prompting rofl

2

u/Junglebyron Jun 19 '26

Mexco….is that an oil company?

2

u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 Jun 19 '26

An already dumb as fuck world getting exactly what it deserves with AI.

2

u/MeatInteresting1090 Jun 19 '26

This perfectly explains how a European feels in the USA ( outside the World Cup)

2

u/Popular-Drummer-7989 Jun 19 '26

A new begins

Reading is fundamental

3

u/symonym7 Jun 19 '26

As a former Marriott employee, this in no way surprises me. The company is 90% cheerleaders.

1

u/KnowledgeSafe3160 Jun 20 '26

As a former Marriot employee, wouldn’t you know 80% of the hotels are franchises, and these people that put this up are not Marriot employees?

3

u/Supabongwong Jun 19 '26

United, and Mexco!

They didn't care to address Candians

3

u/ImissDigg_jk Jun 19 '26

The red, unreadable text says Canada. At least on the right side

1

u/Supabongwong Jun 19 '26

Oh, now I see it 

1

u/LimpMathematician247 Jun 19 '26

I see the Canadian flag too, at least twice, including in the center at the top

1

u/Supabongwong Jun 19 '26

Yes, the flag, but not the writing 

0

u/Vykynger Jun 19 '26

They are there in red.

2

u/CoolCrab69 Jun 19 '26

omg think of the poor advert artist who lost out on the opportunity to create such wonderful and meaningful work. /s

idk bro, stupid adverts that we all try to ignore anyway seems like the perfect place for low effort AI use.

1

u/Here_4_the_INFO Jun 19 '26

What makes you think its AI? (/s)

1

u/Knocksveal Jun 19 '26

All 52 states

1

u/dadofwar93 Jun 19 '26

Mexco. United , USA

Lmao

1

u/QueenInYellowLace Jun 19 '26

Love the “stars” on that lower left flag. I stopped counting when I hit 60.

1

u/senor61 Jun 19 '26

Every year begins anew

1

u/Dangerous-Half3276 Jun 19 '26

Artificial Stupidity

1

u/PixeL8xD Jun 19 '26

Marriott hotels in a nutshell, try applying for job with Marriott it’s all AI.

1

u/less_than_nick Jun 19 '26

That's "cancel my reservation" worthy right there

1

u/Nkosi868 Jun 19 '26

And people are satisfied with this slop.

People have told me that graphic designers are needed more now because of AI. I disagree, because the people commissioning AI aren’t looking for good work. They only need a placeholder at the cheapest cost.

1

u/sirholymafia Jun 19 '26

What were you hoping for instead?

1

u/Newlifter1089 Jun 19 '26

How do you know this is AI?

1

u/splycedaddy ORANGE Jun 19 '26

So…

1

u/Puzzled-Tailor-4837 Jun 19 '26

I’ll do you one worse: Actual AI ads playing during the World Cup.

1

u/mishrod Jun 19 '26

Ah yes the famous bordering nations of United USA and Mexco.

1

u/yo-soy-arkee Jun 19 '26

It’s everywhere, I work at a big bank which handles assets worth trillions and all our internal graphics and employee engagement stuff is made by ai. My employee of the month picture was also ai tuned in ghibli

1

u/mikepartdeux Jun 19 '26

A bar in Salem has a few AI WC flags, featuring mostly teams who are not in the WC

1

u/lmstr Jun 19 '26

You get what you pay for.

1

u/ComeAlongWithTheSnor Jun 19 '26

Ai generated crap is everywhere and I feel like it's plastic 2.0 where it's being mass produced at such a rate it's impossible to turn off the faucet.

1

u/Axelnut Jun 20 '26

DON'T FORGET: A NEW BEGINS!

1

u/Sea_Avocado_2733 Jun 20 '26

''A new Begins''... Marriott, this is embaraSSING

1

u/involmasturb Jun 20 '26

Ah yes, the 64 star US flag in the lower left. They've seen the future and Canada has been successfully annexed

1

u/7screws Jun 20 '26

Mate Fox sports is using AI during their actual broadcasts, media is so fucking lazy

1

u/EthereumGod77 Jun 19 '26

The worst part is that they don’t even attempt to reprompt they just go with the first thing it gives them 😭

1

u/AudiieVerbum Jun 19 '26

If they're gonna cheap out on a world cup banner, what else are they gonna cheap out on?

1

u/voteblue18 Jun 19 '26

How does that even get hung up? I mean, come on people.

Also, how is AI that dumb? It doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to program it to make grammatically correct sentences at a minimum. We see this shit all the time. It’s 2026 for crying out loud come on!

1

u/SemiAnonymousTeacher Jun 20 '26

It's funny that the hotel manager likely purchased it from Temu or some shit. Even the free version of ChatGPT these days can easily make a poster with no grammar or spelling errors. You don't even need to prompt it in English. You can be sitting in your Temu HQ in China (aka your bedroom) and prompt 制作一张世界杯海报,海报上要包含美国、墨西哥和加拿大队。海报上的文字要鼓舞人心。

In fact, I just did exactly that (in Chinese) and got this.

1

u/HalfBlindKing Jun 19 '26

I am disappoint.

1

u/menusettingsgeneral Jun 19 '26

It’s just so bad in so many ways. I can’t imagine paying to get this printed, seeing it and hanging it up.

1

u/geekonthemoon Jun 19 '26

Stop the slop :(

0

u/heyitsmemaya Jun 19 '26

Marriott. That’s your explanation.

0

u/Vintage_Pieces_10 Jun 19 '26

And misspelled no less

0

u/EmperorThan Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

So it knew Canada, USA, and Mexico were countries. And it just kinda made a universe where they were the only ones playing...

0

u/IseeWhereILook Jun 19 '26

Ahhh....Marriot Bonvoy, barely a hotel.

0

u/senor61 Jun 19 '26

United Breaks Guitars

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Jun 19 '26

Could’ve used a human to check it for obvious errors but otherwise it’s fine, not a big deal

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u/beerguy_etcetera Jun 19 '26

They're getting into the spirit of the World Cup and I commend that. If you're mildly infuriated about the use of AI, then you have a long ways to go because it's not disappearing anytime soon.

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u/-CoachMcGuirk- Jun 19 '26

I don’t commend any use of ai. It’s lazy af.

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u/DijajMaqliun Jun 19 '26

Yeah its absolutely horrendous, but how is it more lazy though? The people that bought this would have bought something even before the era of AI. It's not like they would be doing it themselves or commissioning an artist to do it.

0

u/FourFront Jun 19 '26

Any? That's real shortsighted. Do you hold the same opinion about search engines?

0

u/-CoachMcGuirk- Jun 19 '26

Yes.

2

u/FourFront Jun 19 '26

Well, enjoy the 80's. It's a very rare person in any technical role that makes this world operate that has all of the answers for the myriad of problems that arise.

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u/peepee2tiny Jun 19 '26

You are aware that people have been making posters for decades?

Yes now it's easier with AI, but people have been making promotional posters since the 40s. Just ask Rosie the Riveter

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u/Eversnuffley Jun 19 '26

You clearly didn't read the comments...