TechTakes

1489 readers

77 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

259

Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

106 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, to be fair, AI can do it in seconds. Which beats humans.

But if that is relevant if the results are worthless is another question.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it changes the task from note taking or summarizing to proofreading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And proofreading is notably more complex and has a worse failure state than just writing your own summary.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thing is you can do in real time and not pay as much attention to the goings on as you write or do it in the end and forget stuff. there is no harm in the ai summariziation. you could instead write a summary and check if you left anything out via the ai.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

that’s great thanks