Hey everyone,
I have noticed that some recipes on the internet make no sense and have my suspicions that they may be AI slop. The ratios are off, the cook time is unlikely, the illustration is AI made… But it’s hard. And it will likely be getting harder to identify AI generated recipes in the future.
It’s come to the point that I have a hard time trusting a recipe witten after the AI craze started (let’s call it 2025). I’m so suspicious of everything, my go-to “authenticity” check is to not bother with recipes that have recent publication dates. But this isn’t exactly fair nor fool proof.
Do you have tips on how to spot an AI generated recipe?
It’s kind of like music. I used to have a collection of cookbooks to do exactly that, just like I used to have a collection of music in various formats as technology changes. But it’s too limiting. It can never compare to a digital search among all the world’s recipes/music.
My approach was to buy a recipe manager. I generally search online to find something new that looks interesting. But then I import it into my recipe manager so I can use it without all the life story, the excessive ads, the really annoying screen redraws to show yet more ads, the popped to display additional ads or the inline partial recipes that are more ads in disguise