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- You're assuming that the goal of a summary is to decide whether one needs to read the full work. That's certainly one niche usage of a summary, but is definit
by sebastiennight 2y ago
- You're assuming that the goal of a summary is to decide whether one needs to read the full work. That's certainly one niche usage of a summary, but is definitely not the only one and is likely a minority of usage. Most summaries I've needed, from school to my career, were about not having to read the full work.
- I would say Betteridge's Law of Headlines does not provide "No" as a summary to all of these articles. The accurate summary would be "[Title]? No.", since it seems fairly obvious that the word "No" is very light in information conveyed.
On a personal note, I have to say I can't see the point in this current craze about summarizing everything. I never saw the point of those subscription programs which promise you'll "read" a book a week/a month because they'll send you a 5-min audio about the book.
I think you're better off choosing one really awesome book a year and actually reading that.
So I can't see how a (flawed or not) ChatGPT summary will provide any epiphany on the level you'd get from consuming fewer works, thoroughly.