Call me old-fashioned but I don't think it's a good thing for companies to make money by using AI to - cough - cook up recipes that can be harmful or poisonous. I love how the quote isn't even from a critic. It's from somebody working at an AI firm who is programming the shit.
Undercooked chicken is just one potential hazard. “It is also very capable of putting together things that could be poisonous, or harmful, or interact with people’s medications and have no way of flagging that or noticing that,” said Margaret Mitchell, a computer scientist at Hugging Face, a prominent open-source AI start-up.
Hugging Face, a prominent open-source AI start-up.
Isn't huggingface more like a generic project hosting site like github, which just got picked up by the open source AI community as its "github, but for model weights" host? Calling that an AI startup would be as weird as calling civitai (another hosting service focused primarily on stable diffusion resources) an AI startup.
I think calling both those sites as AI start-up makes sense, as they're parts of the pipeline, just on the tail end. There are plenty of AI startups that are glorified ChatGPT API wrappers, so they clear that bar.
Either way it doesn't really matter cause the actual purpose of a recipe is communication between people, if I follow a recipe Im trusting the people who wrote and published that recipe and discovering their particular tastes and preferences, why the fuck would I want an AI version of that.
And particularly with novice chefs this shit is so insidious, just treating cooking as a maths problem rather than as something to cherish and enjoy, you should learn cooking by learning the dishes your parents make, your friends, or even just trying to make whatever good stuff youve tasted sometime.
I always thought that this was because you can't really copyright a recipe, but your spiel about how the hubs love cheese or whatever is where your copyright lives
It's because recipe sites were already ad farms leveraging SEO to churn out garbage and AI just means you can do an even larger volume. Even without "AI" it's why most "[x] recipe" search results give you back incredibly formulaic pages where they tell you a pointless story about their grandpa loving beans or whatever and hiding the actual recipe at the bottom. Most sites were just farming ad money with empty shlock. AI is great for amplifying farm sites because the quality of the content was never the point.
Imagine becoming an "expert" in something fake as fuck and then defending it. Like if James Randi went around telling people that faith healing really worked.
asked it for a fried recipe to test the waters. absolutely terrible! "1 cup of chopped vegetables" hello? which ones? "1 tablespoon of sesame oil, 2 tablespoons of olive oil" come on, you gotta be fucking with me. "1 tablespoon of soy sauce" HUH? you wont be tasting shit in that 3 cups of rice you asshole