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mromanuk ◴[] No.44434455[source]
I definitely like the LLM in the middle, it’s a nice way to circumvent the SEO machine and how Google has optimized writing in recent years. Removing all the cruft from a recipe is a brilliant case for an LLM. And I suspect more of this is coming: LLMs to filter. I mean, it would be nice to just read the recipe from HTML, but SEO has turned everything into an arms race.
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tines ◴[] No.44437457[source]
> Removing all the cruft from a recipe is a brilliant case for an LLM

Is it though, when the LLM might mutate the recipe unpredictably? I can't believe people trust probabilistic software for cases that cannot tolerate error.

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kccqzy ◴[] No.44437801[source]
I agree with you in general, but recipes are not a case where precision matters. I sometimes ask LLMs to give me a recipe and if it hallucinates something it will simply be taste bad. Not much different from a human-written recipe where the human has drastically different tastes than I do. Also you basically never apply the recipe blindly; you have intuition from years of cooking to know you need to adjust recipes to taste.
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1. whatevertrevor ◴[] No.44438257[source]
Not really an apt comparison.

For one an AI generated recipe could be something that no human could possibly like, whereas the human recipe comes with at least one recommendation (assuming good faith on the source, which you're doing anyway LLM or not).

Also an LLM may generate things that are downright inedible or even toxic, though the latter is probably unlikely even if possible.

I personally would never want to spend roughly an hour or so making bad food from a hallucinated recipe wasting my ingredients in the process, when I could have spent at most 2 extra minutes scrolling down to find the recommended recipe to avoid those issues. But to each their own I guess.