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jasonkestertoday at 5:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

But google won’t give you the recipe. It’ll give you a pretty piece of text that resembles a recipe. You’ll only find out it’s not a recipe when it fails to produce a cake.

But then, the sites it's training on are starting to do the same thing, so maybe it won’t matter. Just last night, I pulled up four sites with “gluten free almond cake” recipes. One specified less than 1/4 the flour it would have needed, and another didn’t have any butter in the ingredients list. I had to eyeball the median and tweak from experience to actually get a bakable cake out.


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tardedmemetoday at 5:56 AM

You can buy recipe books at brick and mortar stores, and they're mostly not AI slop yet.

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emayljamestoday at 6:04 AM

You don't need butter to make cake, it ends up lighter and softer without it

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