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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)

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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] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This thing (saveymeal-bot.co.nz) is hilarious. I think I could genuinely use it to finish up leftovers and things that are about to go off, but for right now it's given me "boiling water poured over toasted bread, inspired by contemporary dance" and "weetabix and oatmeal with toothpaste and soap". Fun for now, but I might use it for real at dinner time.

[–] raltoid 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

-Manny

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

black books!

[–] aaaantoine 12 points 2 years ago

Obligatory xkcd

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

Ugh, doesn't work for me, I get all the time:

Invalid ingredients found, or ingredients too vague. Please try again!

[–] nrezcm 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its okay. Try mine!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I think it wants three "valid" ingredients (which it may not necessarily use).

They could be oats, bread and water, for example. They could also be "bowl", "plate" and "saucepan", because those words all exist in recipes, and that's what it's checking for.

BOWL AND PLATE SOUP

Bon appetit!