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Me with every recipe:
Cook. Eat.
After: I rate this as meh. x10. And I'll need to buy more dried basil. Big basil must be making a fortune!
Generative AI has made learning cooking from the internet such a terrible experience
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I disagree. GenAI at least gives you a recipe that might work, and not the author's life story, the dish's convoluted origin story and a half-hearted list of ingredients buried under an avalanche of bullshit missing the fucking measurements. Those were around well before AI.
I miss the times when shit was readable and I didn't have to screenshot instructions off of TikTok recipes.
Before AI I used to figure the recipes I was browsing had at least been cooked by somebody before being posted to the internet. Of course there’s no guarantee that that was ever true, but now it’s much harder to tell, especially when looking for recipes that use a technique that’s new to me. I have a hard time trusting something outside of my expertise that an LLM produced
Totally agree that the recipes stuffed with filler content suck pretty hard too. I would usually open the loaded recipe articles in reader mode, scroll to the very bottom, and copy-paste their contents into a note somewhere to avoid the bullshit when I’m actually preparing the food