Re:Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks
by 0xEF on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:54AM
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Adding to your points of dwindling recipe sources and web sites clearly designed to gather clicks instead of deliver good content, LLM-generated recipes are also a problem...and a deceptive one at that.
My son, a professional chef, tried an experiment, using a few different LLMs to generate recipes that looked very legit, even to his eyes, until he tried to make them. They were all edible, but not enjoyable. It became immediately apparent to us how easily someone could generate a food blog site using these half-baked recipes and make money.
I worry now that this has bled into cookbook publishing, the way that a few foraging books written by LLMs have snuck past whatever meager checks and balances exist in the online publishing industry.
My son, a professional chef, tried an experiment, using a few different LLMs to generate recipes that looked very legit, even to his eyes, until he tried to make them. They were all edible, but not enjoyable. It became immediately apparent to us how easily someone could generate a food blog site using these half-baked recipes and make money.
I worry now that this has bled into cookbook publishing, the way that a few foraging books written by LLMs have snuck past whatever meager checks and balances exist in the online publishing industry.
https://www.vox.com/24141648/ai-ebook-grift-mushroom-foragin...