Jive Turkey

Here’s something you don’t want to hear during your Thanksgiving dinner: “OK, who wants the third wing?” Hopefully, artificial intelligence is not yet powerful enough to add anatomical parts to creatures (other than a few human fingers), but I’m not pulling your leg about AI and Thanksgiving. A little bird told me that people are taking to AI-powered recipes like a Turducken to water. But you may be better off winging it than deploying a bird’s eye view of recipes from an LLM. Beware that Internet searches that used to take you to recipe sites are now being intercepted by AI summaries. The results may leave your guests flipping you the bird. Bloomberg (Gift Article): AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. (I knew one of my family members added AI to their recipe when the valuation of their turkey soared to $10 billion.)

+ Looking to avoid politics at the dinner table this year? Forget it. The food itself is political. The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Culture War Comes to the Kitchen.

+ Trump adds two Thanksgiving turkeys to his long list of second-term pardons. (Following his usual tradition, he only pardoned the white meat.)

+ I’ll be going cold turkey and taking the rest of the week off unless something really crazy happens in the news. And, come on, what are the odds of that? Have a great Thanksgiving.