World-famous Michelin Guide blasted for alleged use of AI to write restaurant reviews

A swing and a Mich for artificial intelligence? The Michelin Guide, revered as the world’s foremost restaurant rating system, The Michelin Guide, revered as the world’s foremost restaurant rating system, tasked AI to write its 2026 review of Dallas, Texas eateries, claims a jaw-dropping new report. And it’s leaving a foul taste in foodies’ mouths, with outraged folks across the internet saying the offense has “burned” the iconic trademark’s reputation “to the ground,” and others calling its star-spangled guide “a fart in the wind.”Although bots à la ChatGPT and Claude are able to do a lot — from generating testimonies in murder trials to launching phony culture wars — the platforms, apparently, cannot fool the suspicious chefs calling out Michelin for allegedly using a large language model (LLM) to scribe its Dallas-area guide, per a D Magazine investigation. The analysis, “including consultation with detection software and academic experts,” reveals that most or all of Michelin’s new Dallas entries were written by LLM software, according to the outlet, initially tipped off by a concerned local cook. Representatives for Michelin did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment regarding the allegation. The company did, however, deny the use of AI in its Dallas review to D Magazine, saying, in part, “All Inspector notes appearing on the MICHELIN Guide website and app are developed collaboratively by the Inspection team based on their firsthand dining experiences.”“AI is not used in the writing of these reviews.”But an overabundance of flowery descriptions, like the “serene” dining room at Mābo and the “carefully sourced” ingredients at Sushi Kozy, plus numerous grammatical anomalies, triggered alarms for AI detector Pangram, as well as Carnegie Mellon University professors Alex Reinhart and David Brown, the findings revealed. Pangram immediately flagged Michelin’s report as “100%” AI...