Cooking

Internet is amazing, you can find many recipes, but as AI comes in, one way to find legit recipes that won't burn your house or make something disgusting, recipe books, YouTube and cooking channels on TV are some options to cook.
Also, consider asking friends and neighbors. You can find tips and lost traditional recipes.\

Here where I live, I watch and read specific well known chef's in my country. I also watch food network Italia, their channel has Italians cooking, with some amazing recipes. Nothing similar to the USA one.

If you are using ublock Origin or a fork of it add these filters to your block lists to hide a lot of AI junk.

https://lemmy.world/comment/21130675

I typically stick to recipe websites with a good reputation rather than random blogs that come up in search results. But that can be tricky if you’re looking for a specific dish.

Might have to go back to the cookbook concept of yore.

So, either buy a physical, reputable cookbook and then try the recipes in there. Or just go to known-good recipe webpages and go through their recipes.

But yeah, just thinking "I'd like to make Venezuelan vuvuzela vegetables", then typing that into a search engine and cooking whatever's the first result, that won't be possible anymore...

I'd skip any with AI images for sure

If I'm searching for it, I limit searches to before 2024.

If I'm browsing a recipe site, I ignore recipes posted after 2024.

Im sure I'm missing a lot of good stuff, but I don't always know enough about cooking to know just by looking at the recipe that it doesn't work.

If the page lacks a date (or has a recent one) then that's a pretty big tell. Same if they've posted dozens of recipes per day. Basically the same as YouTube videos.

generally speaking, i think it’s good practice to find several recipes and compare and contrast them. you’ll find opinions and get a sense for what the writer’s priorities are (quick, fewer dishes, what they usually have in the pantry, etc) and can figure out which writer has similar priorities to you. or just synthesize a recipe from those sources. this does require some technical know-how, but i think this is a good skill to have.

I wonder if the first "AI generated" recipe was the birthday cake in Portal (actually written by humans, but recited by an AI who it's insinuated made the recipe). This recipe includes broken glass, so you kinda know it's not real.

At the end (not really a spoiler), they show a black forest cake, which is delicious. The recipe given obviously does not make a black forest cake, even setting aside the joke comments like the broken glass.

The problem I see is that sooner rather than later, the problems will be so small that most home cooks won't catch the problem until it's too late.

The bigger problem is that if experienced cooks can be taught it's wrong (e.g. something like swapping baking soda for baking powder), why can't the AI, assuming the AI's goal is actually to help you. I feel like we are at a point with AI that if I ask for a recipe with very specific requirements, it should either be able to conjure up the recipe, or tell me why it can't be done so I can change the parameters equivalent (e.g. you can't ask for a steak to be vegan, that simply does not compute).