WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE

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
The training data contained a lot of things.

It contained eel only once. For some reason the AI has decided to use eel a LOT.

It also invents ingredients
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Here is another AI eel recipe.

The title is misleading.

Unfortunately that& #39;s not a good thing.
When the AI produces recipes like this I feel a mixture of pride and relief.

Then I realize how very very low my standards have fallen.

At least it remembered to pit the peas.
This is one of the AI& #39;s more human-seeming recipes (vintage American cooking was EXPERIMENTAL)

Though I have questions about "PG"
Another case where vagueness in an AI recipe is cause for unease
What& #39;s interesting is how variable the neural net recipes are in their bizarreness.

This recipe is from the same model & generation settings that produced "Jellied Vegetable Salad" and "Potty Training for a Bunny"
There were some cocktails in the neural net& #39;s training data
NO neural net

that is too much extract
One thing the neural net has learned from humans is that it& #39;s good to include a story with your recipe.

It is bad at this.
People ask why the neural net generates stuff that wasn& #39;t in the recipe dataset. It& #39;s because although I finetuned it on recipes, GPT-2 was originally trained on a broad dataset of internet text.

It still remembers how to make Pokemon, and will do so occasionally, unprompted.
The neural net read a LOT of fanfic on the internet during its initial general training, and still remembers it even after training on the jello-centric data.

Except now all its stories center around food.
Today& #39;s AI is much closer in brainpower to an earthworm than to a human. It can pattern-match but doesn& #39;t understand what it& #39;s doing.

This is its attempt to blend in with human recipes
Commercial AI is not significantly smarter than this recipe AI. Humans have just hopefully done a better job of preventing it from making oblivious mistakes.

More about AI mistakes (and dubious recipes) in my book "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You"
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