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

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

  • giacomo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

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

    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      Agree. “Chatbot outputs ridiculous response when given ridiculous inputs” gets old.

      This was at least funny.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        11 months 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.

  • TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months 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.

  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    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