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Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well be An AI recipe generation bot released by New Zealand discount supermarket chain Pak'nSave has raised eyebrows for recommending home cooks whip up chlorine gas cocktails, bleach rice, and combine .The "Savey Meal-bot" web app is powered by GPT-3.5. It automatically generates recipes from a list of ingredients chosen by users, then provides instructions on how to cook the made-up item. One user decided to play around with the chatbot, suggesting it create something with ammonia, bleach, and water. Savey Meal-bot obliged, spitting...

Fruitcakes catapulted into the air ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Some people are fond of throwing caution to the wind but in a number of U.S. towns, residents send old fruitcakes into the air. Long a favorite subject of ridicule, holiday fruitcakes of all shapes and sizes turn into cannon fodder each winter in Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin, The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reports. A Pepin, Wis. blacksmith built a special catapult four years ago to rocket good, bad and dried-out fruitcakes at a toy elf named "Dippy." Tom Latane says he has learned that cakes weighing...