I’ve written this blogpost, this isn’t just “AI is bad”, but it’s mostly “AI is almost all the time bad”.
The focus is on the usage as a tool, and maybe bringing some more context to the conversation with the pointing out that the problem maybe is on how the tool were created, and how it’s beying pushed. Not sure.
Let me know what you folks think about it.
Sure LexRank works, but it cannot reword the text, it can only reorder/remove sentences or words. It has use cases, and it cannot hallusinate, because it must just reuse the parts of the input. Unfortunately a good summarization requires often rewording.
But, I stand corrected, I did not know reddit used it.
Agree to disagree, I guess.
Summarization is lossy no matter what, but I’d much rather the lost data be deterministic, and the preserved data be guaranteed to represent the original text. AI summarization is like a bad game of telephone, and it’s hard to be sure when it’s given you a genuine summary or injected its own bias, missed key details, etc. And that’s assuming it doesn’t just completely hallucinate.