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I'm a little worried about the coming flood of AI-generated "recipes" that fit some linguistic model but have never been cooked by any human.

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I've been using ChatGPT to generate recipes both for things I already cook, and for things I'm new to cooking and testing the result against what I find online.

So far it's a good cook! There are times when an ingredient appears in different amounts than I'd expect (like 1c of oil for a 4c/flour taralli recipe) but overall it's comparable to the quality of human written recipes, and better than many.

Just don't use it for baking. It often seems to skip steps, even when summarizing existing recipes.

I did that the other day. I cooked a kadai chicken recipe verbatim from ChatGPT. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t amazing either.

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