WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE
— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) February 7, 2020
I have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipes
I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence pic.twitter.com/cwQwOpUNDv
Janelle Shane put out a call for mid-century American recipes last week to see what a neural network would learn from them. She received over 800 recipes, and used them to train an artificial intelligence algorithm to generate its own recipes. The results are just as horrifying as you might imagine.
Shane admits that this algorithm has previously trained on internet text to learn how to read, and she was surprised at the random bits of information it had retained from, say, fan fiction. Read about the experiment at her blog AI Weirdness, which has ten of the recipes. There are quite a few more of them at Twitter. -via Mashable