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by californiadreem 1156 days ago
Whatever the outcome, I'll still just continue to generate nonsense from the public domain:

"Generate a highest rated recipe from the website AllRecipes.com, then also provide the most helpful comment that includes all the recipe modifications that should have been present in the original recipe, that is to say, the adjustments that make the basic template extra good. Generate a recipe written by Julius Caesar in Latin."

Recipe: Placenta Iulii Caesaris

Ingredients:

2 cups farina tritici

1/4 cup aqua

1/4 cup oleum olivarum

Sal

1 1/2 cups caseus

1/4 cup mel

Instructions:

I. Primo, praecalefac fornum ad 175°C (350°F).

II. In scutella magna, misce farinam tritici, aquam, oleum olivarum et salem. Amalgama usque ad impastem.

III. Divide impastem in duas partes aequales. Extende partem unam in formam rotundam. Et partem secundam in formam rotundam aequalem.

IV. In scutella altera, misce caseum et mel. Compage omnia pariter.

V. Dispone mixturam casei et mellis super crustam unam.

VI. Tum, dispone crustam secundam super mixturam casei et mellis.

VII. Premere finis duarum crustarum simul, ut bene cohaereant.

VIII. Coque Placentam Iulii Caesaris in forno praecalido circiter 30-35 minutis, vel usque ad crustam auream et croccantem.

IX. Emove Placentam e forno et permitte ut refrigeret.

X. Tum, scinde in partes et fruere.

Most helpful comment:

"Conveni, coqui, comēdi. Placentam Iulii Caesaris confeci et omnes convivae vehementer laudaverunt! Nonnihil mutavi ut melius esset. Caseum feta loco ricottae usus sum, nam sapor acris me delectat. Etiam, in mixturam casei et mellis nucem fragmenta addidi. Sic placenta gustu vario fuit. Gratias tibi ago propter hanc praeclaram rationem coquendi!"

2 comments

I expected this to be lorim ipsum nonsense but google translate thinks this is perfectly sensible latin. Conveni, coqui, comedi might be my new favorite phrase.
What's incredibly impressive is that that phrase doesn't appear anywhere else according to google. It's ChatGPT being genuinely 'creative'.
Not with that prompt; the "terms of use" link at allrecipes.com leads to https://www.dotdashmeredith.com/terms-of-use, which claims copyright on all the stuff on there, and explicitly prohibits scraping "for any commercial, marketing, or data compiling or enhancing purpose."
They can claim anything they want, but I don’t believe recipes are protected by copyright.
Reminds me of Hackerrank claiming copyright on solutions to problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239594

I think you're missing the point, the suggestion is that somehow by using AI any copyright claims over derivative works are voided.
> somehow[...]derivative works

Come on, the argument is very simple.

If you mimic generic-enough patterns like fitting a style, your work is not derivative.

You can say that standard is not met here, but don't pretend the entire concept is nonsensical or confusing.