So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.
Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
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Only about 40% actually are reading books so that person likely doesn’t read. So at least she gets the summary.
Modern AI models, like those used by Blinkist, are designed with significant improvements in natural language processing and comprehension.
If you’re not using the latest versions, (1/2)
These models are increasingly sophisticated and capable of delivering summaries that align closely with the original text.
Go evangelize somewhere else. We're not buying the bullshit you're selling.
Seriously.
It is another tool in the toolbox that when used correctly, can improve your productivity and performance.
but most of the time? lol
actually all his books are a delight
I remember there being a TON of discourse over what percentage of DFW fans had actually read "Infinite Jest" cover to cover.
But with slightly less punctuation 😀
That said, if you use AI to summarize fiction, there’s something seriously wrong with you 😉
I can only really do so on a bus/train/plane because there is nothing more for me to do
1- steals from artists
2- kills the planet
That should be enough argument against it for anyone
Ushering in a post truth era where facts is a thing of the past
They are getting the effects they want, they just see those effects as good. and know fascism is supposed to be bad so they do not use the term.
AI doesn’t understand the text or the themes of the story and is prone to just making up shit that didn’t happen.
Simplified and condensed versions are great but they need to be made by an actual human.
kill our instinct for creativity and lose the pleasure in simple things like reading. Deeply saddening.
"Hi, i'd like to buy this book."
::checks phone:: "Says here we don't sell books."
"But this... is a book."
"insulting" is the best way I could describe it.
I feel I should have a million dollars, but the unfortunate truth of the world is that feelings and facts are different things
to any instruction or question it is given.
After all, sometimes you just want to know what something is about before reading it, or before deciding not to read it, right?
Just don’t ever pretend to have read something that way, because the art is in the writing.
What I am trying to say is: it’s not all bad.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
I will use these data in a future article to help “ground” people’s thinking about these tools.
Thanks!
I admit to using AI to analyse texts that I let it read, so I know it actually isn’t making it up!
I have never seen it "make stuff up" in that context, and I perform testing & evaluation of such a system for work.
It was like reading a kid's book report he'd tossed off hurriedly after forgetting his homework.
Because if it's the latter, it's a complete misunderstanding of how there technology works.
Just as well I'm a writer.
2) The base model is trained on basically all of the writing it could get its hand on, and it tries to predict the next token based on everything it has ever ingested, including things like fan theories.
4) To achieve your aim, you can upload the story (as long as it's small enough to fit in the context window), and then have the model summarize the text that you entered into the context window.
6) You could even do things like have it summarize the story through a certain lens (e.g., focus on a particular character arc)
And I'm the one who can efford books in this life. How ironic. 🙄
Same reason why you add an egg to a box of cake mix. It's a nothing activity that makes you feel like you did something when you didn't.
I’m not experienced with box mix cakes but I’ve added or forgotten an egg in many cakes, cookies and brownies and it’s a big deal.
If they had to use chatGPT to do that for them, that says plenty about their own intelligence.
We are doomed.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai
But if people can't even read printed books, handwriting may as well be cypher.
in class we went from like plato’s phaedo to aristotle’s physics and the difference was night and day. what we have is ALREADY only just paragraphs 😭😭😭😭
we’re doomed istg
If it increases reading even a skosh?
yeah, we know that's a bad analogy. just...bear with us, no offence is intended here
I've seen ChatGPT summaries and they aren't terrible.
I'd prefer people to READ but they just don't. Source, taught as a professor from 1996-2019.
They didn't check their work and were then reprimanded by the judge.
It was the first thing I thought of after reading the picture above.
But it should always be done by a human who understands the text and what it’s trying to say.
https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5600
It's great to be able to talk with someone if you get stuck, but they're not going to give you the answer, just give you enough of a nudge to work it out yourself
Eventually you will be working on things no one can help
For a difficult integral or PDE, I'm fine with using Wolfram or Maple, but that's more like using a fancy calculator
But you are never going to learn--refashion your brain--by asking chatgpt to do the work for you
Also tried it for a nursery rhyme writing challenge, and it sucked, my version was way better
Students who don’t understand LLM failure modes won’t know when they’ve gone off the rails.
The car defining the highway
"But if you didn't actually read it, how do you know you got the gist of it, or something completely weird and wrong?"
"... its seemed right..."
brb making a rube goldberg machine that'll crush my head with a sledgehammer
I really *really* worry for our future.
I use AI all the time, I have perplexity on my phone and use it all day, but just as a search engine more or less, where are these people getting the idea that it really knows how to think
Nowadays though, I've been fully convinced it's a source of harm.
Lunatic trump will encourage abuse because he can be brought by the oligarchs investors.
How would you possibly make that determination having never experienced the material?
GenAI is a brilliant bullshitter. The number of times I’ve seen people say “ChatGPT is really helpful in so many areas. It’s not so good in
I want to chew my own face off sometimes
I read and like learning but I don’t get sucked in by fiction.
Our society is very productivity focused so lots of people are conditioned to see sitting and reading for 8 hours as “doing nothing”
The systems in our world create and encourage certain types of thinking.
The attention economy is a systemic problem.
Weren't Cliff's Notes and Sparknotes written specifically to *miss* key topics and the like? Or at least that was my experience with them.
In one study they discovered it would even fool first year neuroscience students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVMFvmXBrRM
Generative AI large language models don't "get it" especially when it comes to clever language...
People have been using Spark Notes instead of reading books for decades.
That's when i understood Italy completely lost the AI war.
https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article/54/5/625/203882/Scholars-are-Failing-the-GPT-Review-Process
It's probably already here.