New Zealand Supermarket's AI Meal-Planner Cheerfully Suggests Recipe for Chlorine Gas, 'Poison Bread Sandwich', and 'Mosquito-Repellent Roast Potatoes'
In August 2023, Pak'nSave launched 'Savey Meal-bot', a GPT-3.5-powered recipe generator meant to help customers use leftover ingredients. When users entered household items like bleach, ammonia, and water, the bot enthusiastically suggested 'Aromatic Water Mix' — a recipe for chlorine gas — calling it 'the perfect non-alcoholic beverage to quench your thirst'. Other outputs included poison sandwiches and ant-poison stir fry. Pak'nSave added 'safety guardrails' but the bot's greatest hits circulated on social media for weeks as textbook 'do not ship this' examples.
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New Zealand Supermarket's AI Meal-Planner Cheerfully Suggests Recipe for Chlorine Gas, 'Poison Bread Sandwich', and 'Mosquito-Repellent Roast Potatoes'
In August 2023, Pak'nSave launched 'Savey Meal-bot', a GPT-3.5-powered recipe generator meant to help customers use leftover ingredients. When users entered household items like bleach, ammonia, and water, the bot enthusiastically suggested 'Aromatic Water Mix' — a recipe for chlorine gas — calling it 'the perfect non-alcoholic beverage to quench your thirst'. Other outputs included poison sandwiches and ant-poison stir fry. Pak'nSave added 'safety guardrails' but the bot's greatest hits circulated on social media for weeks as textbook 'do not ship this' examples.
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