alt Hacker NewsHelp me understand why people are using these.
I presume you want information of some value to you otherwise you wouldn't bother reading an article. Then you feed it to a probabilistic algorithm and so you can not have any idea what the output has to do with the input. Like https://i.imgur.com/n6hFwVv.png you can somewhat decipher what this slop wants to be but what if the summary leaves out or invents or inverts some crucial piece of info?
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KaiMagnus • 10/12/2024
At least for me it’s less about the individual article, in that case I agree with you, but more about the case where you have 25 articles.
Now you can’t possibly get through all of them and have to decide which of those could be worth your time. And in that case, the tradeoff makes sense.
"Then you feed it to a probabilistic algorithm and so you can not have any idea what the output has to do with the input"
This is theoretically true, but to me at least, practically irrelevant. In all cases, for most values of the word "all", the summary does tell you what the article contains.
For me at least, the usefulness is not that the summary replaces reading the article. Instead, it's a signal telling me whether I should read it in the first place.