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?

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago

    I’ve seen some with impossible cook times but I assume that’s just different ingredient expectations or something.

    For example I want to look up a time and temperature to cook chicken breasts but the time is impossibly short. At that temperature it may take 2-3x the time. Are we already at the point of ai recipes with unnoticeable flaws or do “chicken breasts” mean something very different in different places? Or maybe it’s a flawed conversion from metric?

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      just different ingredient expectations or something

      No, it’s fundamental to the way LLMs (don’t) work. Take 10 random pages from a cookbook. Look at the cook times. I’m guessing the “impossible” times you’ve noticed will be within the range of times from the random cookbook.

      The LLM doesn’t actually know anything about cooking; it’s just mashing together something plausible based on 1000 previous cookbooks.