The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/17/asinine-website-ranks-sf-restaurant-patrons-by-hotness-using-ai/A guy who likes crunching publicly available data has turned his sights on a "hot or not" style ratings map for restaurants in San Francisco, LA, and New York, which is powered by AI and yields some highly questionable results. The interactive site is called LooksMapping, and the design is charmingly basic — even including some rainbow lettering for "Looks" in the style of the old-timey Google landing page. "I scraped millions of Google Maps restaurant reviews, and gave each reviewer's profile picture to an AI model that rates how hot they are out of 10," says San Francisco-based website creater Riley Walz. "This map shows how attractive each restaurant's cli

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