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My partner recently bought a receipe book that was probably 100% slop, from the recipes themselvea to the images for each dish.
by acron0 5mo ago
My partner recently bought a receipe book that was probably 100% slop, from the recipes themselvea to the images for each dish.
- soco 5mo agoCompletely unrelated to AI, I buy and always bought recipe books in second hand bookstores. It has this vintage vibe, and not everything has to be kale. Downside is that some ingredients aren't easily reachable, but it doesn't happen that often.
- specproc 5mo agoTotally related to AI. You're gonna be able to spot slop whilst browsing. Local bookshops are great, use them or lose them.
- ethbr1 5mo agoMy favorite are 50s and 60s recipe books. They use modern ingredients where appropriate, but mostly basic ingredients. Later and you start seeing "Use this new processed wunderfood ingredient substitute!" (70s-00s)
- scrame 5mo agoI kinda think everyone should have an old school "joy of cooking", where they have instructions on skinning rabbits and squirrels, just as a reference that things weren't always like this not even that long ago.
- yoz-y 5mo agoOnline grocery shopping service I use has added recipes to their website. Not obvious slop at first reading but then you see stuff like add 600g of carrots and 100ml of water to make a quite watery soup according to the picture.
- ethbr1 5mo agoWe're already post dead info. The only solution is to find recipe books that were printed in previous decades. Which is ironic, given that Google's entire value proposition (to users) was extracting signal from noise... ... and now it's come full A/B-advertising-optimization to being useless at that, when the need is greater than ever. Imho, Google's greatest failing was missing how its own incentives warped creation of new web content, and failing to account for that strategically -- it turned the web into something it can't itself usefully parse.
- bsenftner 5mo agoWe have a distinct poverty when it comes to secondary considerations and long term ramifications - which used to be manageable when progress was slower. Now, we're on a very steep acceleration/progress curve, and any shortsighted mistakes cause extremely large ramifications. Which are then compounded by both more short sighted non-fixes and our rapid acceleration/progress curve layering in additional confusion, misunderstandings, omissions of critical information.
- taude 5mo agoWhat kind of insanity are you all talking about? Plenty of cook book authors out there with good recipes, tested, big-personal brand, etc. no need to go to prior decades for good books.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoHow do you know which ones are good?