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?
A simplified version of how LLM AI works is that it has “read” all the books in the world, and selects the most likely next word/sentence. This can look a lot like knowing, but there’s no reasoning or sythesis behind it, which is why it can’t be “taught” that baking powder leads to a more sour outcome than baking soda.
AI has no goals. The companies that program and release AI have the goals of keeping you engaged with the AI.