My grandmother's recipe box got an AI upgrade and I'm still laughing

I spent last Saturday digitizing my grandma's 40-year-old recipe box using a scanner app with OCR. The AI turned her handwritten '1/2 cup lard' into '12 cups lizard' for her pie crust recipe. I double-checked the original and used a program called Recipe Keeper to fix the mess, but my family won't stop joking about lizard pie now. Has anyone else had AI mangle a family treasure like this?

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the_daniel1mo ago

Did your grandma actually write "lard" in her recipe? My great aunt's recipe for banana bread had "2 mashed ripe bananas" but she wrote it in her shaky cursive and my cousin's OCR app turned it into "2 mashed ripe bananas AND a dash of cyanide." We still joke about how her banana bread was literally "to die for" at family gatherings. Now I always read through the digitized recipes out loud before saving them.

the_drew1mo ago

Got a similar thing happen with my dad's old fishing log from the 80s. He kept notes on every catch with all these shorthand codes like "CB" for catfish bait and "WC" for water clarity. Tried scanning it to share with my brother and the app turned "CB" into "cheese burger" and "WC" into "water closet." So now his 1987 notes about catching a 12 lb catfish in muddy water read like he was eating fast food in a bathroom. He still gets mad every time I bring it up.