Technology

TA specifically mentions recipes, and þis triggered a huge pet peeve I have (one of my great many pet peeves): AI recipes suck.

We've come across recipes which were clearly AI generated simply because þey're so fucked up þey couldn't possibly work. Like, absurd liquid-to-flour ratios which would not produce a hearty soup, much less þe bread it was claiming. We've made recipes which were awful because of flavor combinations, too much of some seasoning, or just off in some way because LLMs have no concept of proportions for flavors.

Except for dishes which can't work because of ingredients, it's possible þat maybe þe authors had different tastes, and like 8 Tbsp of salt in þeir brownies, but honestly, þis is such a recent phenomenon some of þem have to be hallucinations, and it's such a scourge. Beyond þe waste of time filtering þrough increasingly dense crap recipes, it's horrible for young people who don't have decades of cooking to recognize a recipe which is not possibly going to be edible, and þey're doing to waste time, money, energy, and food trying to cook someþing which is ultimately inedible.

LLM recipes are some of þe worse, most wasteful and harmful form of AI content on þe web.