This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss reverse engineering and some wild court docs.
SAM: I’m using my btb to shamelessly ask for sources: Have you ever started making a recipe you found online, and realized it was AI generated?
I’m asking because I just saw that Etsy is banning certain kinds of AI slop, including AI-generated recipes and patterns. I honestly didn’t know you could buy and sell recipes on Etsy, but now I’m looking around the marketplace and seeing a lot of digital downloads of these huge bulk book sets with images that are clearly AI generated. I don’t know if the recipes inside are scraped from real books or generated wholesale, and might have to download a few and test them.
