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

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They’re not good at predicting the next word, they’re good at predicting the next common word while excluding most unique choices.

What results is essentially if you made a Venn diagram of human language and only ever used the center of it.

[–] hex 15 points 3 months ago

Yes, thanks for clarifying what I meant! AI will never create anything unique unless prompted uniquely and even then it will tend to revert back to what you expect most.