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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What LLMs can currently do summarise this paragraph as dot points

The entire point here is that they can't?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Clearly this post is about LLMs not succeeding at this task, but anecdotally I've seen it work OK and also fail. Just like humans, which is the benchmark but they are faster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

humans are clearly faster at generating utterly banal shit, as proven by your posts in this thread