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Smashed #35: AI will never replace restaurant critics, but I could (maybe).

The UK restaurant scene digested

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Andy Lynes
Aug 20, 2024
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A robot eating lunch at a restaurant earlier today.

Restaurant critics writing for the national press in the UK get well paid (plus not inconsiderable expenses) and so they should. They fill pages every week and pull in readers. But with newspapers cutting costs everywhere, they are surely a dying breed. One national title I know of already publishes re…

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