Spookykou
7d ago
Your impression is correct, that is what you will see if you drive an hour out from the city center of Beijing in any direction.
Spookykou
18d ago
It certainly matches my experience from as recently as the 1990s early 2000s. Small town restaurants were generally pretty bad, and the general quality of random suburban restaurants has increased pretty dramatically in the last fifteen-twenty years or so.
I don't totally understand why this would be the case. I think cooking is 90% knowing a recipe, so in theory all you should need is print technology to quickly spread quality cooking instruction, but in practice that didn't work. Even cooking TV shows couldn't do it. I've no idea why wide spread internet usage would be the game changer when those others failed, but it really matches the timeline based on my own experience. Maybe it was just Yelp.
I have tried (and mostly failed) to get AI to write fiction for me since I have mostly tapped out the prog fantasy space for fiction that I enjoy. There are several ways to get the AI to do more or less of it's 'own' writing. You can simply prompt it with something like, 'Edit this for spelling and grammar while changing as little as possible and maintaining my words and voice, minor technical errors are fine only fix things that are obviously mistakes : Paste Text. Whenever I use the prompting above, the AI changes almost nothing.
The quote was what Chatgpt spat out when prompted in that way to edit this comment. I doubt anyone would flag the AI output as AI (unless they were familiar with my writing and shocked my the lack of mistakes).
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