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I used to hate Twitter when it first launched because I thought short form text was stupid, now I see everything will become summaries with AI and nobody will e

I used to hate Twitter when it first launched because I thought short form text was stupid, now I see everything will become summaries with AI and nobody will ever read anything meaningful.

everdrive 1y ago
It could be something of an historical return to form; a small class of properly educated people and then the wider, semi-literate masses.
- mythrwy 1y ago
  Communicating in pictographs
  - ponector 1y ago
    That should be a next step. It takes too much time to read summary. So the result should be a summary picture! Text based image generation is quite good now. How would you call this chatgpt feature?
  - giancarlostoro 1y ago
    Gotta love them emojis
    - mghackerlady 1y ago
      If someone wanted to do this for whatever reason, there's actually a language that can be written exclusively in emojis. It's called toki pona, and while emojis aren't the standard writing system, there have been several proposals. It works well since toki pona has a very small syntax (only around ~150 words iirc)
- threetonesun 1y ago
  I'm "properly educated" by most definitions, 95% of web pages are garbage and a summary is fine. Also I imagine you frequently read summaries of books and movies and many other things before deciding to read or watch the entire work.
  - everdrive 1y ago
    >95% of web pages are garbage and a summary is fine. Mmm, summarized garbage. >Also I imagine you frequently read summaries of books This isn't what LLM summaries are being used for however. Also, I don't really do this unless you consider a movie trailer to be a summary. I certainly don't do this with books, again, unless you think any kind of commentary or review counts as a summary. I certainly would not use an LLM summary for a book or movie recommendation.
vidarh 1y ago
There is plenty of text for which a good summary will have a far higher ratio of meaning to words than the original.
jabroni_salad 1y ago
Did you write a comment like this last time a recipe clipper got posted here?

I used to hate Twitter when it first launched because I thought short form text was stupid, now I see everything will become summaries with AI and nobody will ever read anything meaningful.

everdrive 1y ago

It could be something of an historical return to form; a small class of properly educated people and then the wider, semi-literate masses.

mythrwy 1y ago
Communicating in pictographs
- ponector 1y ago
  That should be a next step. It takes too much time to read summary. So the result should be a summary picture! Text based image generation is quite good now. How would you call this chatgpt feature?
- giancarlostoro 1y ago
  Gotta love them emojis
  - mghackerlady 1y ago
    If someone wanted to do this for whatever reason, there's actually a language that can be written exclusively in emojis. It's called toki pona, and while emojis aren't the standard writing system, there have been several proposals. It works well since toki pona has a very small syntax (only around ~150 words iirc)
threetonesun 1y ago
I'm "properly educated" by most definitions, 95% of web pages are garbage and a summary is fine. Also I imagine you frequently read summaries of books and movies and many other things before deciding to read or watch the entire work.
- everdrive 1y ago
  >95% of web pages are garbage and a summary is fine. Mmm, summarized garbage. >Also I imagine you frequently read summaries of books This isn't what LLM summaries are being used for however. Also, I don't really do this unless you consider a movie trailer to be a summary. I certainly don't do this with books, again, unless you think any kind of commentary or review counts as a summary. I certainly would not use an LLM summary for a book or movie recommendation.

vidarh 1y ago

There is plenty of text for which a good summary will have a far higher ratio of meaning to words than the original.

jabroni_salad 1y ago

Did you write a comment like this last time a recipe clipper got posted here?