Because I hope that someone who's hands were required to assemble the recipe didn't blindly add ingredients like "bleach" if the AI happened to hallucinate them.

let's take a second to think about the threat vectors here. The two obvious ones I can think of are: "AI hallucinates and tells you to put non-food into the food" and "AI hallucinates and gives you unsafe prep instructions" (e.g. "heat the chicken to an internal temperature of 110 degrees"). For both of those, it's not clear why "random recipe from an internet blog" is safer than something the AI generates. At some level if someone is preparing your food you need to trust that they know how to prepare food, no matter where they're getting their instructions from.

Because it assumes the person actually making the food has no common sense?

People get things wrong all the time as well, so I wouldn't trust them either.

Someone once try to feed me dinner from a recipie they found on the internet. I punched their lights out and then called the cops.

Dunno about you, but I like the increased viscosity in my sauces when I use glue:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

An appropriate response might be asking "Hey, I don't trust AI... what's the recipe?"

The described action seems performative and emotional, as it they were ideologically opposed to AI. Like spitting out food because it was prepared by a caste you found unclean.

Hi! I love to cook! I also use AI to brainstorm recipes sometimes! Wanna try asking Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or even Grok what temperature chicken needs to be cooked to? I just asked Claude: 165°F (74°C) internal temperature.

Where does this come from?

I a cook not paying attention or messing up and accurate recipe is overwhelmingly more likely.

IF someone is to the point of worrying about AI recipe risk for chicken, they should have already rejected any food made by amateur or professional cooks due to excessive risk.

Yea, I suppose that is fair regarding cook timings.

Like, I wouldn't spit the food out.

But I would be disgusted. Someone told me they planned their vacation with an llm and I couldn't help but express disdain for this friend of mine.

Why are we outsourcing creativity and research and interest in discovery to an llm?

there is almost nothing seriously dangerous about food, particularly everyday food.There are a handful of niche things that are seriously dangerous, like cooking Fugu or Poison mushrooms with special preperation.

I think this says more about how neurotic and paranoid people are.

> They are giddy about taking jobs away

This is just your interpretation. My interpretation is that they talk about computers being able to perform some intellectual tasks that are now handled by humans in a more efficient and fast manner. They're excited about technological progress and new opportunities it provides, not being "giddy" about unemployment and economic uncertainty.

> suck up to Donald Trump

When you're a head of multi-billion dollar company that employ thousands of people and respond to board that expects your company to continue growing and make money for them, it's strategically dumb and irresponsible to NOT suck up to the most childish and vindictive person who has real power to screw over you and all the people you employ who expect you do everything in your power to prevent this.

If you don't do that and Trump fucks your company over as a result, you're just bad at your job as a CEO.

Non-technical indeed. The wasting water or pollution argument is getting really tiring.

People in "local politics" are random neighbors, almost none of whom are "in politics" in the colloquial sense.

> I both use AI and have very strong anti-AI sentiment.

Me, too. The AI hype machine involves some really bad ideas, the amount of money being poured into "AI" right now distorts everything, public understanding of how these tools work is low, and a lot of contemporary uses both by corporations and governments are irresponsible, dangerous, and likely to produce or reproduce harmful biases and reduce the accountability of humans for crucial decisions and outcomes.

At the same time, it's useful for me at work, and I'm curious about it. I sometimes enjoy using it. It lets me do things I didn't have time for before. It eliminates some procrastination problems for me. I think its use in computing is also likely to be increasingly mandatory for the near-to-moderate term, so it's probably good for me to get used to using it and thinking about it and looking for new useful things it can do for me.

And my own experiences in using AI are part of what drive my anti-AI sentiment as well! I see it do completely insane and utterly stupid things pretty much every day, both in my personal life and in my professional life. I have a visceral awareness of its unreliability because I use it frequently.

I should hope that as hackers we can muster some understanding and respect both for LLM users and for people with hard "anti-AI" stances. Even if you're "pro-AI" to the core (whatever that means), it's worth understanding the most serious and well-considered arguments of critics of LLMs and the contemporary "AI" race. You might even find, as someone who uses and enjoys using LLMs, that you agree with many of them.

I agree completely. The way it's marketed and used is a big part of my distaste, the other part is big tech / AI companies and their actions and ethics. It's why I'm a huge supporter of open source and locally run models, and I am moving most of my workflow to things that I can run on my own machine, or at least on a GPU that I can rent from a plethora of providers.

> And quite a few of them like to mix their religion with politics.

The two things they told us not to talk about at the dinner table in order to have a better experience.

Maybe it was solid advice after all.

Frankly I think a lot of these people are politics first. How else do you explain the dissonance between Jesus’s teachings and their political opinions?

this is true, but thankfully, religion is declining in America. although if people are replacing it with politics, maybe we need another revival

I think it's gotten way, way worse over the past 20 or so years. I recall having friends spanning several political parties, countries and religions hanging out with barely a sense of tension in the room.

Really? It's just a better way to search for recipes in Mr experience

Why? What if you found out a human was involved in creating it?

You're okay with sitting at the rear seat of a car while it drives you around the city though.

You literally get praised for slopping out as much code as fast as you can, so why not? Makes your boss happy and gives you job security cuz eventually that shit will be completely unmanageable with or without LLMs. Gotta hit those KPIs!

As an outsider you wouldn't know though.

I don't really want to say "thank you." That story, more to the point that I can't find a priori cause to doubt it, makes me glad I'm about to go enjoy a gorgeous spring afternoon full of birdsong and sunshine. But I appreciate your taking the time to follow up.