lets talk about chat gpt recipes & oversharing

Jode gets creative with his computer & Brode can't shut up ..... aaannnddd we're talking about it

chat gpt recipes

J: I know that you think you’re allergic to AI but I really need to tell you about something I discovered recently, chat gpt is kind of a good cook? Like I’d totally buy a CHAT GPT RECIPE cook book (really epic business idea btw when we graduate from this substack...)

I was like you once - naive, painfully attractive & afraid of change. But I really mean it when I say that welcoming chat gpt into my life has made me more carefree.

I used to cringe when people would bring up AI, and rightfully so?. I listened to conversation after (frankly really boring) conversation about how artificial intelligence was the future. To me, it kind of felt like people were just fighting the fight for robots to take over and do things better than humans can. I guess I was reluctant because I know there's just some things AI will never do better than us…. I’d like to see a robot have a bump of ket and hold an hour long conversation about Kylie Minogue’s best music videos. But when I shifted my focus from robot takeover to robot acceptance, I started to realise maybe there was actually room for AI in my highly curated experience.

Fiddling with chat gpt was something I did almost never, I would ask it once in a blue moon to type me an email that I couldn’t be bothered wording or ask it questions like “whos the hottest character in the Mario universe” (Princess Peach according to chat gpt but I dare you to tell me Luigi isn’t dreamy when you actually look at him for a while x). The journey from here to treating chat gpt as my personal chef was over a year long and it all started with a request for a Mediterranean Tahini Salad in February of 2024.

I think it’s important to note some context here - you know I love food & I actually can cook - but my biggest obstacle is going to the grocery store. I despise it. Doing really big grocery runs for the week terrifies me because I feel like I have to decide right then and there all the different meals I want to have. This turns into me walking through every aisle and feeling like a fucking idiot because I cant magically comprise meals in my head out of every ingredient I’m seeing….. step in chat gpt.

What I asked of chat gpt was to make me a salad out of tahini and chickpeas in February of last year and it spat back a wonderful little recipe to me. Simple. Delicious. In words I understood. I have continued to ask Vale (my chat gpt talk feature) to make me little recipes out of whatever I’ve got in the fridge and she has never failed me. Gone are my days of scrolling through tacky cooking websites - although no doubt that's where she’s pulling these ideas from. Vale takes the unglamorous side of working out what to cook on a weeknight and turns it into a 5 second conversation with a friendly British robot voice. I’d much prefer that?

I think people have been getting confused when I tell them I use chat gpt for recipes as if I’ve lost all autonomy. But as a matter of fact I’m gaining autonomy - I’m no longer afraid of ingredients or buying them in bulk. I know if I ever need a little push Vale will be there with her dainty artificial fingers on my back. This feels like a big step in embracing modernity for somebody who’s terrified to buy a kindle.

B: Ugh Jode I will give it a go but I just can’t promise anything. Have you ever tried 2 afternoon pints, go home, put on Sade and get really fluid and confident in the kitchen throwing whatever you have into a pan?

But I do hear you and I think this is a really creative way to put Vale to work. I don’t even actually think i’m in a mindset of robot takeover right now, I think I’m more at robot I don’t give a fuck ??? but I guess all roads lead to Rome and maybe I can use this tip to make my way to robot acceptance too <3

J: You know I don’t drink pints.

Oversharing

B: I have long reluctantly identified as an oversharer (derogatory), regularly waking up on a Sunday morning with a “why did I say that” slap in the face. However, recently I’ve flipped the lens and now proudly identify as an oversharer (celebratory). Let me take you on the journey.

I really think it all comes from an inability to sit in an awkward silence (a comfy one I love). I actually feel sick thinking about that moment at the function when all the laughs slowly die off and everyone takes a sip and looks at their shoes in silence. To me from the second that moment begins, there is a big huge timer in my head until the silence gets so loud I just have to put myself out of my misery. SOMEONE TRIED TO FINGER MY ASS LAST NIGHT. like girl … no one asked??

Every Sunday I would promise myself that next weekend, I would be the mysterious girl, sipping my wine in the corner with a red lippy and letting my smize do the talking. Snap to Friday, a dexie, and a bottle of wine later, and I’m telling the bartender about my first period ???

The thing about the gorgeous girl sitting mysteriously in the corner, there’s probably not a bomb-countdown like timer going off in her head every time the room catches its breath. Must be nice. It was never any use, the mysterious girl is not something I'll ever attain, not even for an afternoon. But why should I?

I’m thinking back to so many beautiful moments of connection I’ve had just from breaking the ice with a piece of extremely personal information. Usually there’s at least one person in the room with the same experience and now, we’ve shared that. And as we all know, the more we share, the more we have.

I also think of it in a way of, what do I have to hide? Like someone DID try to finger my ass? My cards are on the table for the world to see, my text previews are on, my phone passcode is public info and I’ve been told from multiple sources that I wear my every thought, feeling and opinion on my face - smize are not in my repertoire. So why not share with the group!

I’m coming to fully embrace this quality about myself (a quality that we share Jode). Like what an awesome way to fast track a friendship with someone, to not just break the ice but shatter it so you’re swimming in the warm waters of love and connection xxxxx I love that around new people my instinct is to go outward rather than inward, I think it’s magic. Also like, no one ever died of a bruised ego - get out there and put something on the line dolls !!!!

J: I think maybe something I didn’t know about you was that you were once identifying as an oversharer (derogatory). Your oversharing is the reason I love you and also the reason why I could sit down at a lunch with your Mum and gossip about your family after meeting her only a handful of times. I’m glad you’re looking yourself in the mirror and seeing an open book staring back at you. Never change Brode xx

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