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by VLM 1230 days ago
This is the problem in a nutshell, do you define a "good recipe" as one that is historically accurate, that tastes good, or that follows various belief systems like not culturally appropriating or only culturally appropriating when you do a good job of it?

Meanwhile the ad sales platform is going to define a "good recipe" as one that results in high click thru on ads they have contracts for.

And add a side dish of the people doing the rating of how good the page is, specifically have zero skill in the field and are going to have intense normie middle of the road bias because on average they don't know anything.

If you magically crowdsourced the averaged opinion of average folks about the General Theory of Relativity in 1900, would that result be useful and have beaten Einstein before he wrote it in 1915? The AI people think so; especially the ones who's paychecks depend on it; personally I have my doubts.

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Thanks for writing in VLM.

No one in this comment thread made any claim of any recipe or particular chili recipe being "good".

Your summary is confusing to me, because whatever the "normie middle of the road" idea we are supposedly now discussing does not have anything to do with what I said or had asked questions about.