Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an...

Many thanks!

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JEEBERS EARLY CHRISTMAS!

In just 30 seconds of download and runprog time, you’ve changed my recipe browsing so much for the better! I just tested some of the more pesky `sites, and they’re as clean as the proverbial whistle.

Many thanks again.

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I’m curious about how a free browsing app makes sense to for the folks doing the work, but that is clearly “not about food”.

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Well we can take it to DM if you like but simply put – and I work in the industry – IDGAF :laughing:

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They have subscriptions models etc and not having obvious ads doesn’t mean they don’t track you and can still sell information about you to third parties.

As an FYI, Brave’s CEO has a controversial background as he left the CEO position at Mozilla after some anti-LGBQ donations and more recently had also some “interesting” tweets/comments about Covid which at least place him not too far from conspiracy people

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the AI that’s being hyped and pushed onto the public takes everything on the web for gospel truth.

an AI restricted/using your own data by definition will be more ‘accurate’ and ‘truthful’ -
we used to call them card catalogues . . .

but that’s not what is being executed as AI.

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I think AI has a place as a helper and support for the real human work. But recipes and foods - no thanks. Until AI has to eat and can develop taste, not interested in their take on recipes. This is where you would hope humans with the brains would recognize what does and doesn’t work with AI, and not just blindly follow an AI suggestion.

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Yesterday I compared (for number of egg whites, amount of nuts in cups and weight, type and amount of sugar, spices, cook temp and time) about 15 recipes for spiced nuts.

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It is quite bad at scaling recipes. Doesn’t account for the fact that you don’t fill cake pans completely full.

It’s also bad at legal advice.

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So are lawyers.

Sigh, what’s a human to do.

Made me think of this thread

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