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I don't know if it's just me, but having built enough websites with AI tools, I'm 99% sure this site has been built with AI. Nothing wrong with that, but the AI look makes me doubt the content is also just put together by AI.

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I dunno, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, certified AI hater, and even I don't really care if this is AI or not. The cheeses I am aware of match their descriptions well, and if AI let some guy make this in like fifteen minutes so I can read this silly, fun site on the toilet at work, that's fine to me.

AI definitely could be used for something worse than categorizing cheese, I just recognize that the moment I see a page is AI-generated, my motivation to consume the content of the page drops.

> my motivation to consume the content of the page drops.

I suspect this is a feature backed by an innate brain process related to down-weighting the storage potential of information from untrustworthy people, as a type of resistance to the human brain equivalent of a "poison" attack. For example, some guy that lied to you in the past walks up. Brain releases chemical that reduces "excitement", brain doesn't store said BS as readily.

That's totally fair, I guess my defenses aren't that high because most of what I view online comes from HN or a few small reddit communities, so I'm not exposed to much slop.

Aren’t you concerned with consuming made up information? There has to be a million fun silly sites you haven’t read that a real person put real research and real effort into. LLMs just can’t do stuff like this accurately right now.

Yes, I am, but I guess I don't assume anything like a blog or infographic online is accurate unless it's from a "good" source (news organization, citing a reputable book, etc.), just as a starting point to find something legitimate to read if it piques my interest in the topic. The writing didn't throw any particular red flags, so I didn't really care if the backend was AI constructed.

And it’s actually attempting a periodic table rather than just using the aesthetics as found in Mendeleev’s.

Mendeleev's periodic table was organized by periods of chemical properties...

Yes, the cheese are arranged by properties rather than just looking like a periodic table.

It's missing the characteristic element of a periodic table, which is both a visual and explanatory representation of the relationship between the composition of the different substances and their properties.

The concept is there, but it is presented as a regular table, not the classical periodic table.

The notion of "missing e̶l̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ cheeses" is entertaining, and the only real reference to the actual periodic table.

I totally agree: This feels like Claude Code created it. It's the new, AI version of "It was clearly built with Bootstrap"

As a cheese lover, I don't care too much. :-)

As a fellow cheese lover I would have loved for more geographical diversity, especially when it comes to sheep cheese. Ok, it didn't include Romanian telemea (I'm Romanian myself), but it could have at least gone for the Greek feta. Some Anatolian or Middle Eastern varieties would have also helped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemea

Agreed. This looks exactly like something I would get with the prompt "make me av website with the periodic table of cheese"

why would you say 99% or even qualify it? Just say maybe we shouldn't be promoting one-shot 30-second AI outputs.

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