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"(Since I know you're wondering, yes, I did eat paste as a kid. I loved it. It was minty. I stopped only because of shame from the other first graders. But now I'm an adult and can't be shamed for eating glue pizza.)"
Oh my.
@ruedigergad @carolannie @annaleen I expects it will be abysmal. I tried on several very well known, very documented short texts (article, short essay). Really, things like "the tyranny of structurlessness". The AI (all of the common ones I tested: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, local ollama/deepseek...) gave extremely deep sounding and assured summaries, which were also horrible results, missing extremely important, often foundational nuances to the point of misinterpretation.
For things they must have been trained on.
So, AI (llm) summary is the same silver bullet than llm for defending your case in court. Worse than useless
@ruedigergad @carolannie @annaleen I haven't tried the one in Acrobat, but generally ChatGPT or Gemini do a good work at summarising. I don't think hallucinations are a big problem honestly (for summarisation , they are a big problem for other things) I maybe haven't used them extensively but I don't recall seeing any obvious errors when summarising a document. It's the critical evaluation that is probably a bit more limited, but again if you want a quick summary, probably you're not looking for that either, and the tool does the job.
Honestly, aside fron the initial "oh that's cool" novelty-item moment I would say that mostly it's faster and more efficient to quickly scan papers manually yourself but there are other uses.
@annaleen this is the second time I've posted this meme today. I hate how often it's relevant.
Just goes to show you’re not dumb enough for Adobe AI… but they can help you with that… if you’ll only give them a chance. (joke) 🙂
If an "Executive Summary" was appropriate the authors would have written one.
Adobe Don’t Read-er
@mike805 “PDF forms” is a mess that includes several incompatible “standards”.
Firefox can be used to fill out at least some of those (the most common ones), but I think it can’t be used to e.g. create legal “e-signatures” (which seems to be even more of a mess than the forms, and I doubt even Acrobat supports all of those).
@joannaholman @annaleen A book publisher tells me that they now have to provide alt text for all illustrations.
Which seems bonkers. If whatever-it-was could be adequately described by text then that's what the publisher would insist on, they wouldn't go to all the hassle of dealing with the illustration.
"The most critical reader of all, myself, now finds many defects, minor and major, but being fortunately under no obligation either to review the book or to write it again, he will pass over these in silence, except one that has been noted by others: the book is too short."
@annaleen What's even worse is when you work your way through creating a document and you export a .PDF of it only to be asked, "Would you like a summary of this document?"
It drives a person to new expletives.
@annaleen sad thing is, I've met a PhD student who was literally doing this for his summaries for his thesis prep.
I was aghast, and he was proud of the laziness
@2something @annaleen if I were to guess;
What would it do with/to Das Kapital or War and Peace
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