> Very useful to let AI summarise a large wall of text when browsing Hacker News for example
This right here is why I'm against LLMs big time.
Walls of text are long for a reason. Yes, many of them might have filler. But sometimes there is nuance in the filler that a summarizer will happily throw away.
I don't want long form to be Instagrammified --- condensed into a ten-second paragraphs with 40% of the details that perfectly fits an endless consumption model that's perfect for advertising.
I think the user has to mentally tune out the bad websites that significantly use fillers -- most "news" sites. AI summary is definitely time saved for such websites.
Well written articles deserve to be long form and not summarized as you note. But the large majority of web articles belong to the former category.
This right here is why I'm against LLMs big time.
Walls of text are long for a reason. Yes, many of them might have filler. But sometimes there is nuance in the filler that a summarizer will happily throw away.
I don't want long form to be Instagrammified --- condensed into a ten-second paragraphs with 40% of the details that perfectly fits an endless consumption model that's perfect for advertising.