New York Times Cooking adds AI ingredient swaps, and readers push back
What happened
New York Times Cooking already offered unit conversion and serving-size scaling. On October 29 it was reported to have added an AI ingredient substitution tool, rolling out to all iOS Cooking subscribers. Senior editor Genevieve Ko said the team spent a lot of time calibrating the answers, but reader reaction was mostly negative: about 77% of the 171 comments under the announcement were negative. Some readers said AI ruins the cooking experience and asked for an off switch; the official response said the feature cannot currently be turned off.
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- Hacker News front pageNew York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled
纽约时报为 Cooking 应用上线 AI 食材替换工具，目前面向 iOS 端全部 Cooking 订阅用户逐步推送，此前已推出单位换算和份量缩放功能。资深编辑 Genevieve Ko 称团队耗费大量时间校准回答，但 171 条公告评论中约 77% 为负面，读者抱怨 AI 破坏烹饪体验、要求提供关闭开关，官方回应暂不支持。
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