Google-KI-Zusammenfassungen ruinieren den Lebensunterhalt von Rezeptautoren: „Es ist ein Aussterben“
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/15/google-ai-recipes-food-bloggers
Google-KI-Zusammenfassungen ruinieren den Lebensunterhalt von Rezeptautoren: „Es ist ein Aussterben“
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/15/google-ai-recipes-food-bloggers
50 Kommentare
That’s sad to hear. AI recipes sometimes suck. Horribly. At least when a person is associated with them, you can ask them about it.
Good! Saves so much time from scrolling through someone’s life story to get to the recipe
AI slop replacing existing slop. oh no.
Maybe don’t start every recipe with a 3 pager on how you „grew up a happy childhood in the Italian countryside, surrounded by the comforting aromas of my grandmother’s cooking“ and get to the point instead?
Not to be an AI defender but when i click on a website for a recipe i have to fight through a five paragraph essay about why the food is the way it is. Then scroll through at least three ads before i get to the actual recipe. Recipe website piss me off so fucking bad. I still use them because google AI will fuck it up but still.
Let’s face it, recipe sites were already a disaster. They’re essentially malware: constant refreshes, toxic ads, and dark UX patterns. They turned something so simple into slop before slop was even a thing.
It makes sense they’re the first ones to go through the meat grinder.
They did it to themselves. The ads festering across the entire page, burying the ingredients halfway down, lacing it with SEO bait and making ads that are impossible to click through.
Good riddance.
Maybe make your recipe page straight forward and not hide the actual recipe under 4-5 paragraphs of bullshit and ads.
Recipe writers are ruining the lives of recipe writers by including their whole goddamn life story on some shitty webpage before they actually give you the fucking recipe. At least the NYT doesn’t do this shit.
This is bait. Why would anyone use a Gemini summary for a recipe?
This would be like if the airports that force you to walk through a half mile of shops before getting to your gates opened up a direct route and all the stores complained.
Those recipe sites were already flooded with AI generated recipes so now we have ai summarizing ai.
I love when recipees are shared on YouTube when those content creators are from another country and you gain some insight into the culture and their history. I’m sure AI will try but it just won’t be the same.
This is why people are returning to physical media. If I want recipes now I look through a cool book instead of Google. They have genuinely butchered thier use case exclusively for stock value.
But how will I know which dream about her dead grandmother from instanbul prompted her to make a recipe for chili mac and cheese???
Yeah well, I can’t say i have any pity for people who choose to write a three page blog post for a recipe for chocolate chip cookies just so they can fit all of their ad banners.
They knew what they were doing – and most of them are just recipes stolen from other sources anyway.
IMO, this is a very rare win for “AI”
Honestly this is more because that market was already sitting in a precarious niche. People want recipes and they would hide them behind exhaustive SEO slop and banner ads. I don’t *want* people to lose their livelihoods but also frankly this didn’t need or deserve to be one anyway
I’ve said many times before, the main reason to use LLMs today is because they haven’t yet been monetized and enshitified like search and most web blogs and publications.
My experience? After using chatgpt to develop recipes over the past year, I’ve installed a network ad blocker (pi-hole) and begun using recipe blogs once again.
I just want a recipe. Not an essay or article.
Yeah like when I just need to get a quick recipe for some bread I wanna make, but instead get a history lesson of OPs grandma who used to make this bread in a war or some nonsense.
Time to go back to actual cookbooks? Tbh, I always enjoyed those more anyway.
I’ve been using cooked.wiki for all recipes now. You add cooked.wiki before any url with a recipe and you get the clear instructions and ingredients with all the bullshit stripped away.
So if your recipe url is http://recipe.com you just do cooked.wiki/http://recipe.com and off you go.
You can also paste instagram stories/post links directly and it will create a recipe with instructions if the post has text info in it that explains the recipe.
I definitely feel bad about using AI, but I have found it an incredibly useful tool with cooking. I can ask it questions, diagnose issues, brainstorm cooking ideas or substitutions
I will continue to buy cookbooks from reputable chef’s and authors.
It’s kind of ironic, because the whole rise of the online cooking blog could have been said to be a „extinction event“ for the people who make actual cookbooks, but as far as I can tell, it never actually was one.
Maybe if they weren’t 15 pages of talking about their summer in Prague instead of giving the recipe then we wouldn’t need AI to get us directly there. Also the AI summaries are terrible.
This is actually making a bad situation worse. I cook. It’s like my main thing. I read about recipes and research them. It was already an ad fill crap shoot but now it’s gotten inconceivably worse. I can’t even feel safe buying books because AI slop is now published.
I can things like jams and pickles and thats a massive safety issue if something is AI slop rather than facts.
I am reduced to books and recipes I know from experience come from good sources and even then I have to be on my guard.
And let’s be real, before AI it wasn’t great with influencer copy cats just repeating the same recipes over and over. The internet of recipes was vast but damn shallow.
If ai summaries drive the recipe writers out of business, then there will be no recipes for ai to summarize. AI is a parasite killing its host.
Recipe tip, before they kill the option. Rather than endlessly wrestle with ads, hit the Print Recipe button and save it off as a pdf. Then access the pdf to make the recipe.
lol „recipe writers“ can get fucked. I don’t want to read a novel about your grandmother’s first hot meal after escaping from East Germany just to figure out how much baking powder I need to make a 13″ pan of corn bread.
The solution here is simple and to pretty much reiterate what everyone else is saying.
Find a website with many good recipes and use that site specifically. Itll probably have 90% of what you need.
Even better, you really only need 2-12 (big range depends what you cook) recipe books to get to that 90%. The two being Joy of cooking plus 1.
“Yeah let me just scroll through your 64 page dissertation so I can get to the part where it says how long to poach an egg. The references to your studies of 12th century Rwandan poetry was especially helpful.”
I made a tasty soup with just the aid of some ingredient ideas and a few back and forth with chat gpt
Good. Bye. I never wanted your life story for a chocolate chip cookie recipie. I have zero sympathy.
Good.
One of the few times I’d rather look at a book than look something up on the Internet.
I want a fucking recipe, not a story about how you remember the smell of the pecan pie cooking while you were shitting your brains out on Thanksgiving eve. That and each step being separated by a paragraph makes me want to vomit.
I typically ignore Google AI results but it’s actually nice for recipes.
I know why recipe sites are the way they are, but they suck and I hate going to them.
This is society fighting back against some tradwife’s 5 page essay on baking chocolate chip cookies. Give me the forking recipe and stfu
„and there was much rejoicing“ -Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Everyone making the same joke (or not joke) about wading through the author’s life story first. Highly recommend ‚recipe filter‘ or similar plugins. Works very well for me and pops up a recipe with just the details I need when I go to a site.
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It shouldn’t be something that provides a livelihood in the first place
AI telling people to cook with glue 😂 this is one of the reasons I don’t even look at the AI summaries and they don’t let you fucking turn it off
I mean I want a recipe. Not a history of Italy through the Middle Ages and how it vaguely relates to your recipe. Just tell me how to cook the spaghetti!
They deserve it. Recipe hosting sites made a deal with the devil and their souls are due
The thing is the AI will kill all free advices, free instructions, free articles. There wont be anything new in a couple of years for it to steal from. And then it wont be able to offer anything new. Only repeat the old ones
Not me helping AI aim its lasers at recipe writers that think I give any forks about their 8 paragraphs of bullshit before the actual recipe.
If there’s a single mention of cooking for your children I close the window then just go to Cook’s Illustrated/ATK like i should have just done anyway. I don’t fucking care about your children.
I would feel bad if the typical recipe page wasn’t typically 90% bullshit I don’t care about. But also, fuck those AI summaries.
Recipe sites were some of the most dogshit, useless things on the internet. As long as the recipes themselves are still written by humans, I can’t imagine AI making them any worse.
oh nooo, how can i read your life story now with 400 ads sprinkled over the whole page?
good riddance
Good.
I had to make cookies last weekend. I had to disable my ad blocker, my VPN, my browser guard, and reading mode to even load the page. Once the page DID load, I had to scroll past 9 stories about this asshole’s dog leading him to realize baking was his fulfillment of God’s Great Design, his brother’s uncle’s cousin (thrice removed) niece’s roommate’s dentist’s esthetician’s infant son’s robot toy’s random comment that sparked the inspiration for this recipe (God’s will was apparently not enough), and once I FINALLY reached the ingredients… the fucking page reloaded.
Scroll by it all again just in time to have all the ads pop in for round 2, moving the ingredients up and down, making it impossible to take a screen shot.
Finally get the ingredients centered, take a screenshot; the SS has an ad in it that popped in between me starting to press the SS button and finishing pressing it; scroll down, more ad pops moving the page, take a SS of the second half of all 6 lines of total ingredients.
Oh wait, I need instructions and shit too.
27 minutes of infuriatingly difficult page navigation, reloads, ad pops and unexpected twists that his brother’s uncle’s cousin (thrice removed) niece’s roommate’s dentist’s esthetician’s infant son’s robot toy WAS HIS DOG THE WHOLE TIME, I manage to take 6 more screenshots and stitch them together to make a single screenshot of instructions.
Fuck whoever is doing this and ruining the internet with a barbed-wire-wrapped tire iron. It’s by far the worst on Pinterest and recipe sites. I just wanted some ginger snap cookies to enjoy with hot cocoa around a fire with my wife.
Never again.
I hope they all go bankrupt and baking becomes a lost art/science/house of fucking *witchcraft* and we all have to figure it out again from scratch, while poltergeists‘ echoes of, „set it at 350…“ and, „don’t over-beat the batter…“ wail off the walls of our ancestral homes.
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Oh! Onions, here we go!
*No, it was a story about the versatility of onions…*
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„Start by caramelizing the onions on medium heat until they’re brown. ~3-5 minutes.“