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Many of you are ignoring the word "gracious" in the above post—it's there becaus

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Many of you are ignoring the word "gracious" in the above post—it's there because this is my dad, and despite the unfortunate use of a tool that hates me and my goals in life, I am in fact very happy to see him taking an interest in the culinary arts, particularly given this may be his first actual meal cooked in decades.

He doesn't really understand yet how food works, and I'm hoping to find a way to help him forward that shows a better path than blindly copying whatever even human-made recipes say, because at least to me cooking is a very iterative and personal process and highly subjective to tastes and equipment, requiring experience more than "recipes".

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eviloatmeal@floppy.peepee.party ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@amin Given this context, it sounds like the response ought to be to offer encouragement and direct him toward other resources, without putting too much emphasis on the negativity of LLMs part.

E.g. over time maybe show him some cookbooks or videos or whatever medium he would enjoy engaging with.

If the LLMs seep back in, I would gently push back, and especially I would point out specific cases of the generated output being wrong, while comparing to more reasonable recipes.

I guess the difficult part about this is that it's essentially impossible to identify that the output is nonsense unless you have the knowledge to know that it is nonsense. So more experience in the domain will hopefully help on that front.
kabel42@polymaths.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@amin maybe ask if he'd enjoy cooking together?