The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications
TL;DR
The AI tool provides recommendations and adjusts the recipe accordingly. | Image: The New York Times The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some drama among users.
Nauti's Take
The useful first test is a small sample of familiar recipes: swap ingredients, scale servings, and compare every suggested step with the original. The key question is whether the AI applies sound cooking logic or merely produces plausible text edits.
Allergies, cooking times, and oven temperatures still require manual verification.
Summary
The AI tool provides recommendations and adjusts the recipe accordingly. | Image: The New York Times The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some drama among users.
Last Friday, NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the feature, which can be used to recommend substitutions for ingredients and cooking equipment, scale recipes to any number of servings, and "generally make our recipes work for what a cook needs at that moment.
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