yeah let me take cooking advice from a bunch of algorithms that literally cannot taste things
The room full of monkeys with typewriters at least have a sense of taste
Hmmmm, this spaghetti recipe uses way more bleach than i would typically use.
Call me old-fashioned but I don’t think it’s a good thing for companies to make money by using AI to - cough - cook up recipes that can be harmful or poisonous. I love how the quote isn’t even from a critic. It’s from somebody working at an AI firm who is programming the shit.
Undercooked chicken is just one potential hazard. “It is also very capable of putting together things that could be poisonous, or harmful, or interact with people’s medications and have no way of flagging that or noticing that,” said Margaret Mitchell, a computer scientist at Hugging Face, a prominent open-source AI start-up.
Hugging Face, a prominent open-source AI start-up.
Isn’t huggingface more like a generic project hosting site like github, which just got picked up by the open source AI community as its “github, but for model weights” host? Calling that an AI startup would be as weird as calling civitai (another hosting service focused primarily on stable diffusion resources) an AI startup.
The reporter probably “researched” AI (and related topics?) by quickly googling and checking Wikipedia.
I think calling both those sites as AI start-up makes sense, as they’re parts of the pipeline, just on the tail end. There are plenty of AI startups that are glorified ChatGPT API wrappers, so they clear that bar.
I was reminded of the creature from Alien
We need a :nuke the site from orbit: emote.
Either way it doesn’t really matter cause the actual purpose of a recipe is communication between people, if I follow a recipe Im trusting the people who wrote and published that recipe and discovering their particular tastes and preferences, why the fuck would I want an AI version of that.
And particularly with novice chefs this shit is so insidious, just treating cooking as a maths problem rather than as something to cherish and enjoy, you should learn cooking by learning the dishes your parents make, your friends, or even just trying to make whatever good stuff youve tasted sometime.
so in a way those long rambling stories about the recipe and how such and such passed it down to so and so etc etc
that there are actual web scripts designed to bypass them and extract the recipe
those twenty paragraph preambles that you scroll and scroll past
are unironically good actually?
I always thought that this was because you can’t really copyright a recipe, but your spiel about how the hubs love cheese or whatever is where your copyright lives
I thought it was mostly for the purposes SEO because if you use enough nouns and adjectives by writing an essay or a short story then Google will naturally preference it in its search results.
Back in the day sometimes people used to dump SEO key terms at the bottom of a page back when crawlers used to be less refined so you’d see a list of nouns and adjectives related to the topic at the end, or they might be put into 1pt font or white font on a white background. Obviously as things developed crawlers would ignore this SEO stacking technique in favour of actually legible text written in sentences rather than a thesaurus dump, hence why people write short stories these days.
This doesn’t explain why the stories come before the recipe instead of after.
Because that way heuristics show your readers “reading” that bullshit instead of just grabbing the recipe and fucking off, which means advertisers see your site as more likely to drive engagement and pay more for ad space. Those sites exist to be blank banners to shove ads onto, any actual material of worth is incidental.
And you can put more ads on the page during paragraph breaks
If you’ve got good standby recipes online you should save them or write them on laminated note cards
AI has actual use cases but I don’t know why the fuck you would use it for recipes
It’s because recipe sites were already ad farms leveraging SEO to churn out garbage and AI just means you can do an even larger volume. Even without “AI” it’s why most “[x] recipe” search results give you back incredibly formulaic pages where they tell you a pointless story about their grandpa loving beans or whatever and hiding the actual recipe at the bottom. Most sites were just farming ad money with empty shlock. AI is great for amplifying farm sites because the quality of the content was never the point.
Yeah, I’m struggling to come up with a worse use
Asking it medical advice
C’mon, be honest. Just tell me if you don’t like my mint-garlic spaghetti I made using www.very-real-recipes.com
Tbh that might go hard
Imagine becoming an “expert” in something fake as fuck and then defending it. Like if James Randi went around telling people that faith healing really worked.
asked it for a fried recipe to test the waters. absolutely terrible! “1 cup of chopped vegetables” hello? which ones? “1 tablespoon of sesame oil, 2 tablespoons of olive oil” come on, you gotta be fucking with me. “1 tablespoon of soy sauce” HUH? you wont be tasting shit in that 3 cups of rice you asshole
You’re missing the key ingredient: the feces of a bull
