NYT Cooking tests AI tool to modify recipes and suggest ingredient swaps

The New York Times is trialing an artificial intelligence feature in its Cooking app that lets users adapt recipes to their needs. According to senior editor Genevieve Ko, who announced the feature last Friday, it can suggest ingredient and equipment substitutions and scale recipes to any number of servings. The tool aims to make recipes fit what a cook needs at a given moment. One example cited shows it advising that baby spinach, which wilts faster than kale, should be added later in the cooking process. The test has also drawn some user debate about the feature.