Mastodawn

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/

“a fatal flaw in the idea that we will increase our productivity by asking chatbots to summarize things we don't understand: by definition, if we don't understand a subject, then we won't be qualified to evaluate the summary, either.”

👌 @pluralistic

Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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German Vidal Mar 2

@johnpaulflintoff I don't quite understand the criticism. In fact, it could apply to summaries in general. And yet, I find summaries very useful. It's not about fully understanding them, but rather that they contain a minimum amount of information so I can decide if I'm interested in the topic and whether to read the full text or not. That's all I ask of a summary. @pluralistic

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John-Paul Flintoff

@the_heruman
Agreed, I’m not hostile to the notion of summaries per se.
Not even against the idea of using AI to generate a summary.

I recommend the piece by @pluralistic that I linked to because its fuller argument makes a great deal of sense.