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Well, you can use LLMs to parse LLM-generated slop. They make nice summaries. I have taken this approach to people who send me obviously generated LLM text; I s
by trollbridge 6mo ago
Well, you can use LLMs to parse LLM-generated slop. They make nice summaries. I have taken this approach to people who send me obviously generated LLM text; I simply run it through an LLM, paste the summary, and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?" and then I ask the for their original prompt.
- Sgt_Apone 6mo agoMight as well donate money to the AI companies at this point.
- erentz 6mo agoBut now even this is just producing more information and requires more work both of you and of the original sender.
- stoorafa 6mo agoLLMs are great at decompression [1] [1] https://jabde.com/2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decompression-scheme/ https://jabde.com/2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decomp...
- dr_sausages 6mo agoNice article! I wrote something similar this year too after seeing the 5-bullet-points of information stretched out with AI homologous slop too many times. https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-01-26-jpeg-compression-for-thought/ https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-01-26-jpeg-compression-for...
- dodu_ 6mo agoAh yes, take my single sentence, blow it up to 3 paragraphs with LLMs, and then the person reading it can have an LLM summarize it in a single sentence. What the fuck are we even doing anymore?
- ua709 6mo agoI wonder if that even works. Kinda like when kids play telephone I think it’s unlikely the input and output sentences actually match.
- anon84873628 6mo agoThe thing is, eventually these products will be more integrated into business workflows and have access to all the context, so the three paragraph expansion probably will be a significant improvement upon the original input. And either that person won't be employed anymore, of the thing they were asking for in the first place will be automated for them. I've already got my agent building a dossier for everyone we interact with. I haven't started training it on their writing style so I can mirror back to them... yet.
- BlackFly 6mo agoAs these products improve, one person sending the output and not the prompt will remain useless. The prompt captures the intent and level of real consideration of the person sending it, the receiver can augment that with additional information if they want to.
- anon84873628 6mo agoThat's like saying I should just send the English teacher a description of what my essay will be about, instead of actually writing it. It seems like no one responding to this understands scoped context retrieval.
- rurp 6mo agoProfessional communication has a completely different goal than a student essay, and it's weird you conflate the two. A student paper is useless as an artifact, the actual value is for the student to learn how to write the paper. If a coworker sends me a long email for me to read it should provide some actual value.
- throw310822 6mo ago> and then I ask the for their original prompt. Original prompt: "Please rewrite this information in a nice format for my insufferable asshole colleague".
- solid_fuel 6mo agoThis puts the LLM providers in a great position of: <prompt text> -> [PROVIDER] -> <lots of output text> -> [PROVIDER] -> <prompt text, mangled> They're getting paid to encode some inane prompt into paragraphs of text, and then they're getting paid again to summarize that back into something with even less value than the original prompt. And they're making money hand over fist because people are happier to play that game rather than just pushing back on the jerks sending them pages of generated garbage in the first place.
- trollbridge 6mo agoI would agree with you, except right now the walls of text come from people using the free or very cheap versions of ChatGPT, et al. So there's not even anyone making money off of it.
- insane_dreamer 6mo agoTelephone game