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Recipes sites too. Recently I was looking at recipes for a dish I wanted to try and noticed that two blogs had identical recipes for "Grandma's X". I scrolled b
by CrazyStat 3y ago
Recipes sites too. Recently I was looking at recipes for a dish I wanted to try and noticed that two blogs had identical recipes for "Grandma's X". I scrolled back up to the obligatory five page essay and those were almost identical too--one of them had clearly stolen the story from the other and run it through one of those AI "paraphrase" tools to change words here and there. It was pretty easy to tell which was the original and which the copycat based on some strange word choices in the paraphrased version.
- renewiltord 3y agoThat's the old pre-AI tools. They just thesaurus substitute.
- ehnto 3y agoYep, article spinners were the thing as early as 2010, probably earlier. Even more surprising that they are back in search results as I remember them being absent for a while.
- _delirium 3y agoBack when I used to do Mechanical Turk now and then, I would see rewording tasks show up pretty often there too. I assume they were for this kind of purpose. Typically they were just one sentence out of context that you were supposed to reword. I guess they pasted the article back together out of the reworded sentences?
- liveoneggs 3y agoRecipes have been one application that OpenAI/ChatGPT is actually really good at. No ads, interactive substitutions/scaling/conversions.
- Baeocystin 3y ago"hey bot, I have {foodstuffs} available, I need to make dinner for n people. Give me some options in the x style" Probably one of my most-used prompts, and it's batting close to 1.000. Every now and then it will make a mistake, like forgetting the salt, putting a step in the wrong order, or the like, but far less often than you'd think. If you already have even a middling amount of kitchen experience, it's a fantastic use case.
- Retric 3y agoSeems like an oddly high risk process. Not only are you risking bad taste from major missing ingredients like salt, but also ruining things with the wrong temperature/ cooking times. A reasonably comprehensive cookbook like The Joy Of Cooking or something specific to your preferences seems like less effort overall vs Google or a LLM.
- binarysolo 3y agoI would treat it analogous to asking ChatGPT to code for you (but for food) - some times it works great, other times you gotta nudge it a bit. The tool is currently best used by people who already know how to code/cook and don't want to spend too much cognitive bandwidth, but have the skills to mofidy as needed.
- Baeocystin 3y agoThat's pretty much exactly how I see it, too. Offload a good chunk of the scut work, but I'm sanity checking the results. Still a strong net positive, at least in my experience.
- weaksauce 3y ago> Not only are you risking bad taste from major missing ingredients like salt, but also ruining things with the wrong temperature/ cooking times. they are operating under the assumption you are a decent cook. any decent cook will know how to taste for salt and what is safe temperature wise. if you blindly follow instructions you are not a decent cook.
- JohnFen 3y agoYeah, I don't search the web for recipes, ever. There's no point. I just have a couple of big recipe sites I hit up when I need a new one, instead.
- chinchilla2020 3y agoRecipe sites have become toxic. they deserve revenue loss. It's one area where chatGPT is rescuing us from bad actors.
- mschild 3y agoThe bad actors are using ChatGPT. Besides, properly written, curated recipes are fantastic. Mommy blogs or the likes are not.