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> The author saw a Google AI Search ad that could identify ramen from a photo and provide a recipe. They criticise generative AI for repackaging other people’s
by dkiebd 1y ago
> The author saw a Google AI Search ad that could identify ramen from a photo and provide a recipe. They criticise generative AI for repackaging other people’s hard work into bland, soulless output, unlike trusted recipe writers whose work is tested, personal, and distinctive.
Has this guy ever googled a recipe and clicked on a result? The website is very likely to be a complete mess. And the recipe is also likely to be untested and simply made up for clicks.
- sodimel 1y agoYeah the AI solve a problem created by the company that made the AI because their algorithms are biased to display websites containing content written for them instead of content written for humans :/
- athenot 1y ago> Has this guy Sophie Koonin is a lady. That information was in the original article but might have been omitted by the LLM summary.
- dkiebd 1y agoThat information is also completely irrelevant since it doesn’t change the point of the article or the point of my response at all. Therefore an LLM omitting it is not an issue.
- martin-t 1y agoThe average blogger is a male and the parent commenter is perfectly OK with average opinions, average summaries, etc. so it makes perfect ironic sense that he doesn't care.
- timerol 1y ago.. if you read the full article, you would have learned that "I subscribe to a lot of recipe websites via RSS, and look forward to new posts from some of my favourites", which is a much different way of consuming recipes than you proposed
- dkiebd 1y agoIt is also a much different way of consuming recipes than what the overwhelming majority of users of the internet experience.
- d4rkn0d3z 1y agoYou mean to tell me that my sausage, kale, avocado, tortellini might not have been a thing?
- scellus 1y agoPeople have no taste of humor. ;)