{"id":3718,"date":"2023-05-25T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/buzzfeed-ai-struggles-to-recommend-recipe-for-laid-off-journalists"},"modified":"2023-05-25T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:56:00","slug":"buzzfeed-ai-struggles-to-recommend-recipe-for-laid-off-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/buzzfeed-ai-struggles-to-recommend-recipe-for-laid-off-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh on the heels of announcing that he would be using AI to replace static content \u2014 and thus, re-engineer BuzzFeed-owned sites into a new kind of automated content farm \u2014 BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has given The New York Times a glimpse into what that process might look like. Behold: Botatouille, a recipe-suggesting chatbot that will soon be integrated into the\u00a0BuzzFeed-owned food site\u00a0Tasty. &#8220;Rainy day? Botatouille recommends winter chili or lentil soup,&#8221; writes the NYT&#8217;s Benjamin Mullins. &#8220;Feeling lonely? Botatouille suggests chocolate chip cookies or a vegetable curry. Botatouille might also recommend shepherd&#8217;s pie, which it quipped was its mother&#8217;s recipe.&#8221; We know, we know. Groundbreaking stuff. We&#8217;ll give you a second to pick your jaw up off the floor. But for all its recipe-generating prowess \u2014 it apparently excelled at offering a coherent party punch \u2014 Botatouille reportedly struggled with one specific recipe ask: a good meal suggestion for a laid-off media worker. That&#8217;s a relevant question for the bot, considering that BuzzFeed just sacked its\u00a0entire BuzzFeed News team in favor of an AI-heavy future for the digital media empire. &#8220;Hmm, it seems like you might be feeling a bit down. How about I recommend a meal that will lift your spirits?&#8221; Botatouille reportedly told Mullins, after first hitting the journalist with an &#8220;oops, something went wrong&#8221; error message. &#8220;For a laid-off digital media worker, I suggest trying the one-pan chicken and veggie meal prep 2 ways.&#8221; You heard the bot. If your CEO, like a growing number&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/buzzfeed-ai-recipe-laid-off-journalists\">BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh on the heels of announcing that he would be using AI to replace static content \u2014 and thus, re-engineer BuzzFeed-owned sites into a new kind of automated content farm&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,82,114,2823,2827,2825,2826,2824,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}