alt Hacker NewsUse your brain and summarize the article yourself if it's of such great importance. Why should I care to read it if you can't be bothered to actually write it?
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Personally, I think it's fine to read an AI summary, go back and verify the parts it's citing, then write your own.
It's at least as okay as skimming the original documents and not properly reading them.
You know, I probably have standing to argue that people who use the web are just as lazy ;-)
I'm just old enough that I was in the middle of the transition from paper (in primary school in the 80s) to online (starting late 90s)
I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, but obviously people should drive to 3 different libraries across 3 countries and read the journals in their own binders (in at least 3 different languages)
In reality: full-text online is convenient. Having an LLM assist with search and filtering is convenient.
I could go back to the old ways. Would you like me to reply in pen? My handwriting is atrocious.
I really prefer modern tools, though. Not everything older is better. Whether you want to read what I write is up to you.
(edit: Not hyperbole. I live in a small country, and am old enough to still remember the 80's as a kid.)
Actually, I'd like to expand a wee bit. Don't know if you've ever done a scientific library usage course or so. It's one of those things you tend to forget are important.
One of the most important lessons is not to read as many papers as possible. It's weeding out as many as possible so you can spend your limited grey matter reading the ones that actually matter.
And that's where the LLM comes in handy, especially if it's of decent quality. It's a Large Language Model. Chewing through language and finding issues and discrepancies, or simply whether a paper matches your ultimate query is trivial for them .