I’ve been test-driving the NextCloud app “Cookbook“, which has been put together by a small team of FOSSers. It’s still in alpha, but it does everything I need it to. As a consequence, I’ve also been putting my old recipes into the schema.org “Recipe” type so that I can easily hoover each entry into the application. ChatGPT has been very useful in speeding this process up. But it did run into a challenge and struggled to resolve it even after a fair bit of prompting, which I don’t often see.
The recipe I was working on was deep-fried chips. As in, the chips that come with fish ‘n chips. Or schnitzel or a burger, or whatever. The robot gave me:
These are indeed chips.
They look good but not what I’m after.
“Thanks. Update the chips photo. These are thick-cut potato chips, like what you’d get at a Fish & Chips shop.”
These are still the same type of chips.
They still look good but they’re still not what I’m after. I appreciate that “Fish & Chips”, “Fush & Chups” and “The Chippie” are quintessentially British colony talk, but I assumed that GPT4o was bit more well-travelled than just California. And also, I know they have “chips” there, I’ve eaten some.
“More like this, please:”
A bowl of thick-cut chips. Obviously.
“The Chips image has been updated to reflect thick-cut potato chips, as served at a Fish & Chips shop:”
No, no it hasn’t.
“The chips you’ve made still look very thin. These are supposed to be thick cut chips (not crisps from a bag). I’ll show you another example:”
More thick-cut chips. Perhaps roasted.
At this point I was getting confused, hungry and scared:
Pauline Hanson’s not going to be happy about this.
But after a moment of reflection on the image it created below…“It seems the generated image still doesn’t meet your expectation for thick-cut chips. Let me try another prompt to better align with the provided examples.”
Better late than never. Hopefully they’re not soggy by now…
“The updated thick-cut Chips image has been refined to better resemble those served at a traditional Fish & Chips shop.” And so it does! I guess this goes to show that our AI overlords aren’t quite ready for prime time yet. Or even ready for lunch. If you’d like to make a real version of these (they look very similar, I promise), you can find the recipe here.
