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Thank you for the comment. That was the first time I have posted such a summary, and I wasn’t sure if I should or not. This was my thinking: The linked article
by tkgally 3y ago
Thank you for the comment. That was the first time I have posted such a summary, and I wasn’t sure if I should or not.
This was my thinking: The linked article is long and paywalled, and the title is provocative and possibly misunderstood. Rather than people commenting based only on the title and their prior views on the issue, I thought it might help to provide an objective summary of the article. An AI’s summary is likely to be more objective than one written by a person interested in the issue (including me). Claude 2 is, as far as I know, the only publically accessible LLM that can summarize such long articles, and it is currently available only to people in the U.S. and U.K. or with VPNs. I therefore decided to post that summary myself in the hope that it would lead to a more constructive discussion. Such a discussion hasn’t emerged yet, but that doesn’t seem to be because of the summary.
In any case, there doesn’t seem to be consensus yet on whether AI summaries on HN are good or bad; my own AI summary has received both upvotes and downvotes. I'll drop a note to @dang and ask for his thoughts on the issue.
- tkgally 3y ago@dang kindly replied to me as follows: “[AI-generated summaries are] definitely discouraged. We haven't added it formally to the guidelines (mainly because I think it follows as a corollary, or maybe a lemma, from what's already there) but we want HN threads to be for curious conversation between humans, and have always discouraged autogenerated comments or even human-written summaries.”
- anigbrowl 3y agoThe best approach if you come across a paywalled article is to submit it to archive.org or some other archival site.