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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3109500

Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, it can make a recipe for chlorine gas, but can it recommend a wine pairing to go with the gas?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but the wine contains potassium benzoate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

....
That's bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any mainstream news article about 'AI' just feels like clickbait at this point

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree. "Chatbot outputs ridiculous response when given ridiculous inputs" gets old.

This was at least funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Though I would say that it spitting out recipes for things that aren't even ingredients indicates that it's not a useful tool. It's not basing recipe recommendations on any knowledge of food, cooking, flavours, textures, or chemistry. Seems like it's just arbitrarily fitting a list of ingredients into some other patterns.

If it doesn't understand "this isn't a safe ingredient", I doubt it understands anything about what ingredients that aren't poison would go well together, other than ones it has seen paired in it's training set.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The headline makes it sound as if it was just randomly suggesting this, but of course it would do that with people inputting non-food ingredients.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and noted that the bot has terms and conditions stating that users should be over 18.

We should definitely prosecute kids who poison themselves or others via use of this app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of kids have parents....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of parents have kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So does mine. I don't think I would have had any concern if he was playing around with a MEAL PLANNER

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago