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janpeuker • today at 10:49 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

> When reviewing literature, it fails to identify the specific papers or blog posts that are obviously the most important and useful.

I like this point because it's so hard to define "obvious". I agree they clearly are, but when LLMs are asked to pick the most important they tend to focus on a heuristic like "would show up in a summary", not creativity. Especially in longer texts like books where context is hard to keep they anchor on plot structure, for example time, rather than narrative.