> after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash

Not entirely unwarranted given the track record of LLMs as a chef though:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-sav...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

Of course it was two years ago and it's unlikely to happen again, but that's the drawback of the “move fast and break things” attitude: sometimes you've broken public perception and it's hard to fix afterwards.