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Warning: I just tried to write a recipe card for my grandma's soup and the AI made it taste like cardboard.
Used to do all my recipe writing by hand. Just a notebook, a pen, and a lot of tasting. Last week, I thought I'd be smart. I got this new app that uses AI to 'polish' and 'standardize' recipes. I fed it my grandma's chicken soup steps. It gave me back a list. Exact amounts, perfect times, all that. But it stripped out every bit of soul. It removed the 'simmer until it smells right' line. It changed 'a good handful of parsley' to '0.25 cups, finely chopped'. The whole point was the feel of it, you know? Now I have to go back and fix the whole thing. Has anyone else run into this where AI makes something technically correct but totally misses the point?
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keith_bennett2mo agoTop Commenter
My dentist's office tried an AI chatbot for appointment reminders and it got weirdly aggressive.
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blair_nguyen2mo ago
Yeah, it just sucks the life right out of things. That "simmer until it smells right" bit is the whole recipe, that's the part you learn from a person. The AI gives you a dead thing, a set of instructions for fuel, not food. It doesn't get that the feeling is the point.
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the_anthony2mo ago
Exactly. It's like the difference between a map and the actual trip. You see it everywhere now, not just recipes. Customer service bots that can't hear the stress in your voice, workout apps that don't know when you're just having a bad day. The system gets the steps right but misses the music. It turns everything into a checklist, and checklists have no soul.
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sethfoster12d ago
The whole "soul" thing feels like a cop-out, honestly. A good AI recipe is more reliable than some aunt who's just guessing on measurements and telling you to cook until you "feel" it. @the_anthony, checklists work because they get the job done consistently, even when you're tired or distracted. The stress in your voice doesn't matter to a customer service bot because it can just fix your problem without all the baggage of a human's bad mood.
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