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I don't understand the focus on recipes, though, since USPTO explicitly carves out recipes as works not protected by copyright. There's no reason not to search for a recipe and extract "a statement of the ingredients and procedure required for making a dish."

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There were a number of headlines a while back about ChatGPT suggesting recipes that could create chlorine gas, create a poison, called for human flesh, and others.

The prompt tells it specifically "You can make up recipes though," so I don't think they're concerned with nonsense/dangerous recipes in that section.

I was going through my book collection the other day and it occurred to me that a recipe book is one of the only good ways (for now) to tell that a recipe was tested and designed rather than generated. That and a reputable author online publishing one, I suppose.

If it is the recipe book of your Grandma, then yes. For everything else, there's a sad reality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36040967

Oh God

Boy, that's the exact comment I remembered. That one really did a number on my recipe book trust.

Its kind of sad that we trust YouTube more, because we can see the recipe being made successfully in at least one of the takes. Even if it tastes like arse.

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