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I have used ChatGPT for professional purposes in the past — basically to explore esoteric features of SQL to run against a political campaigning database I maintain. Then I watched Sunday's edition of John Oliver's HBO series Last Week Tonight in which he talked about AI and specifically mentioned how students, newscasters, politicians have submitted ChatGPT generated text as if it were their own writing. Despite his warnings I used it again today for professional purposes (yet more SQL estorecism) after which I tried asking how to make KP Cheesy Footballs. The UK+Ireland version of cheesy footballs are smaller than the NFL inspired version of North America; the fundamental difference is that ours (UK+I that is) the footballs are much smalller, typically a tad over 1cm in diameter and have a wafer coating. ChatGPT gave me a modified versions of the North American recipes, which I had previously found via a DuckDuckGo search.

All that got me to thinking what is EYB's and EYBers's view on including such AI-generated recipes here? Of course ChatGPT effectively plagarised the recipe because it did not cite the origin.

I think you may have missed the central points of John Oliver's look at AI. That aside, how would the issue come up? Were an AI Chef blog to pop up, would users ask for it to be indexed? Doubtful. And if the AI aspect weren't advertised, how would EYB know? Hypothetical future ethical questions have a real place and we should be thinking about them as John Oliver pointed out. But there isn't even a hypothetical ethical issue here. EYB is a topic specific (recipes) indexing service. They index sources, on a member demand basis. They act as a publisher only with regards to their news content. If an AI generated cookbook hits the market and 1500 members buy it, should EYB index it? You bet, just like the Oxford English Dictionary added "emoji" when it became a common enough word. The OED neither approves or disapproves of "emoji", it simply documents it based on its prevalence of usage. Should EYB worry if an indexed blog is publishing AI generated recipes? Not their problem. If the issue comes to light, should they report the news? Absolutely! Beyond that, really not their issue as far as I can see it.