There's more food in the world than ever to choose from, and instead of becoming more picky and enjoying gastronomic cuisine here and there, somehow people are choosing to have *all of the foods* blended and chewed up by some middleman company so they can ingest a neverending Soylent smoothie of sameness.
The idea is it's fine if we never taste, enjoy and digest anything, as long as we never "miss" anything.
I sort of disagree. I love summaries. I prefer human-written ones because they're far more trustworthy, but a machine-written one can save me from pointlessly skimming pages of something that turns out to be irrelevant.
In an ideal world, BLUF and tables of content should do most of the work.
A summary is always an expression of distrust: I don't trust the author not to waste my time so I need a summary. It's strange that a website would offer an AI generated summary of a text that it paid someone to write.
There's more food in the world than ever to choose from, and instead of becoming more picky and enjoying gastronomic cuisine here and there, somehow people are choosing to have *all of the foods* blended and chewed up by some middleman company so they can ingest a neverending Soylent smoothie of sameness.
The idea is it's fine if we never taste, enjoy and digest anything, as long as we never "miss" anything.
There is too much content and not enough time.
I can read a summary and get the gist then decide if I want to read the full thing, or I can bypass it and not interact at all.
I chose the former.
Direct example, https://thefrontpage.dev/ has got me to read many more articles which I would have otherwise skipped over.
I've been using that site a lot since it was posted on here. I loved the irony of reading the summary of this guy's rant on that page
I sort of disagree. I love summaries. I prefer human-written ones because they're far more trustworthy, but a machine-written one can save me from pointlessly skimming pages of something that turns out to be irrelevant.
In an ideal world, BLUF and tables of content should do most of the work.
A summary is always an expression of distrust: I don't trust the author not to waste my time so I need a summary. It's strange that a website would offer an AI generated summary of a text that it paid someone to write.