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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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[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago

Made strange choices about what to highlight.

They certainly do. For a while it was common to see AI-generated summaries under links to articles on lemmy, so I got a feel for them. Seems to me you would not need any fancy artificial intelligence to do equally well: Just take random excerpts, or maybe just read every third sentence.