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NYT Cooking tests AI recipe modification feature

The New York Times is testing an AI feature in its Cooking app that helps users modify recipes. It can recommend ingredient and equipment substitutions, scale recipes to different serving sizes, and adapt recipes to a cook's needs. The feature has sparked discussion among users. An example showed the tool advising that baby spinach should be added later than kale because it wilts faster.

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It shows a major media company deploying practical generative AI inside a consumer cooking product, with early user reaction.

Screenshots showing the NYT Cooking app’s new AI recipe modification tool.
The AI tool provides recommendations and adjusts the recipe accordingly. | Image: The New York Times

The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it's sparked some drama among users. NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the feature last Friday, which can be used to recommend substitutions for ingredients and cooking equipment, scale recipes to any number of servings, and "generally make our recipes work for what a cook needs at that moment."

One of the examples given in the article shows a user asking to use baby spinach instead of kale, with the NYT Cooking app feature advising that because baby spinach wilts faster, it should be added during a later step of the rec …

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