Is that AI canning recipe tested, or just written to sound safe?

A shelf of jars is supposed to make future meals easier. I would not use an AI-written recipe as the basis for food I plan to store in the pantry. University of Minnesota Extension describes asking ChatGPT for hot sauce that could be ‘safely canned and stored in my pantry.’ The author reports that the answer still supplied too little vinegar compared with tested recipes using similar ingredients, and omitted the jar size. Asking for safety did not establish it. This is an educator's account of particular searches and prompts, not a measured error rate for today's chatbots. It does show why a detailed answer can be a poor substitute for a tested preservation recipe. The National Center for Home Food Preservation recommends using only tested recipes from reliable sources such as USDA, the Center itself and university extension services. I would give the assistant a narrower job: find an existing tested recipe for the produce I have and open the original instructions. Follow those instructions rather than a rewritten version; ask an extension service about any change they do not explicitly allow. A chatbot's reassurance is not a test of the altered recipe. For canning, declining to invent a recipe would be useful help. It could spare someone an afternoon filling jars they should never have put on the shelf.