As part of a recent chatbot comparison, I (ambitiously) decided to bake chocolate cakes based on recipes from ChatGPT, Bard, and a control cake from the food blog Sally’s Baking Blog. I thought everyone who tasted the cakes would choose Sally’s, aka the one that hit all my chocolate cake wants, but somehow, the runaway favorite has been ChatGPT. Yes, it based its recipe on something else, but it made good enough changes to win over an actual human-written recipe.
My intrinsic need to believe humans with actual taste buds can do better has been challenged, and I do not like it.