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Most of us encounter these surreal monstrosities as an assault on our eyeballs: weird TikToks of humanoid animals living a white picket fence existence accidentally cannibalizing their young<\/a>, for instance, or anthropomorphized food items sobbing before they\u2019re boiled alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n But it can get way worse, an intrepid reporter found.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mia Mercado at The Cut delved into the culinary frontier of AI-generated recipes<\/a>, and in the several-course-meal of this endeavor, subjected herself to eating \u201cliteral AI slop\u201d that she cooked herself, to see if the instructions held up in reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n On TikTok, she found a recipe video<\/a> for cottage cheese breadsticks which was entirely AI-made, down to the voiceover, the loud \u201ccrunch\u201d of the food, and the physics-defying visuals.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter combining the blended cottage cheese with an egg and mozzarella, I added the optional (???) garlic powder, salt, and pepper. The batter was loose, and my hopes were low,\u201d Mercado wrote. \u201cHow would this pan of goop become twisted, bready sticks?\u201d<\/p>\n Narrator: they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s more like an eggy sheet with herbs,\u201d Mercado lamented. \u201cWhen I tried to twist the strips to resemble the original video, three of them fell apart. They tasted like a weird omelet.\u201d Their final rating: \u201c0 out of 5 AI-generated thumbs.\u201d<\/p>\n TikTok commenters, none of whom exhibited any suspicion that they were viewing something an AI-model bullsh*tted, were equally disappointed.<\/p>\n \u201cThis mixture is too liquidy to form anything. Is an ingredient missing?\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n Another posted a photo<\/a> of their attempt at following the recipe, which looked like a melted blob. \u201cUmmmm\u2026 that\u2019s how mine looked when I started cooking it,\u201d the user wrote.<\/p>\n Luckily for Mercado, an AI-generated recipe for spicy buffalo chickpea wraps turned out to be pretty good, earning four out of five thumbs.<\/p>\n The catch: \u201cThis recipe was most certainly stolen from Minimalist Baker, much of the recipe wording is identical,\u201d Mercado said.<\/p>\n Her luck didn\u2019t hold. When Mercado tried a recipe for \u2014 get this \u2014 \u201cFettucine with pineapple-cashew cream sauce,\u201d which did appear to be an original AI creation, it was monstrous. \u201cI don\u2019t know why anyone would make this recipe, unless they had an abundance of soaked cashews and fresh pineapple to use ASAP,\u201d she sneered.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s an amusing experiment, Mercado\u2019s unnecessary act of self-flagellation underscores how AI slop can creep into our real lives. Millions are taking the words of these hallucinating machines as gospel. Bad actors use them to churn out fake videos to generate political outrage. If there\u2019s any merit to the adage of \u201cyou are what you eat,\u201d it\u2019s worth avoiding consuming anything cooked up by an AI model.<\/p>\n More on AI: New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article<\/a><\/p>\n \t