Trained an AI on my grandma's recipe box and it actually works

So last month I scanned all 47 of my grandma's handwritten recipe cards into an AI tool. Some of them were basically illegible - her handwriting was wild. But the AI figured out the ingredients and steps, even corrected for old measurements like "a knob of butter." Made her lemon meringue pie over the weekend and it tasted just like hers. Has anyone else tried feeding old family stuff into an AI?

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jamiegreen4d ago

I saw this thing on YouTube where a guy fed his grandpa's old letters into an AI and it wrote new letters in his grandpa's voice. Kinda weird but also cool. Your grandma's recipe thing makes more sense though because recipes are just instructions, not personal feelings. I bet the AI getting the "knob of butter" right is the real win, those old measurements are a nightmare. My mom still says "a pinch of salt" and I never know how much that actually is.

baker.riley3d ago

Hang on, @jamiegreen, I gotta push back on that one lol. Those old letters are crammed with personal feelings, that's the whole point. Taking someone's actual words and having a machine spit out fake ones in their voice? That's not "kinda cool" to me, that's straight up creepy. It's like putting words in a dead person's mouth and pretending they said them. A recipe is just a list of steps, sure, but a letter is someone's soul on paper. Feeding that into an AI to make new ones feels like a violation, not a "win" like getting that knob of butter right.