honestly cookbooks genuinely are better

i got the art of italian cooking recently and it's genuinely far easier to get a recipe than trying to scroll through a 50 page monologue about the intracicies of someones childhood before even listing the ingredients

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rhetocj23 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed. There is an element of trust with an actual cookbook - it signals quality.

The internet over time has been riddled with junk, especially since the cost of production of information is just your opportunity cost of time. Even that is going away with the use of LLMs....

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endymion-light 5 days ago | parent [-]

Core issue within the content age that I don't see being readily resolved. Unfortunately, I think the SEO marketing crowd are slowly catching up with LLMs, which is leading to poorer actual output when attempting to get information.

In the same way that google search used to be amazing before it was taken over by optimization, I think we're seeing a mass influx of content production to attempt to integrate itself into training corpus.

	▲	rhetocj23 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		TBH I for one am glad about this. I have always believed there is a cost borne to get the best of something. This means a sacrifice is entailed. Theres something very important about this re. the culture - a culture in which everything is free is how you get crap stuff produced. And people settle for crap stuff just because its free. People who can see the bigger picture when you have this, can see the dangers of it.

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makeitdouble 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

To note, you can buy the recipes and skip the dumpster internet or register to a site like cookpad. At this point even YouTube is a decent place for that.

I agree random recipes are hell on the internet, but it's also not something we're forced into if we care any bit about recipes in the first replace.