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.”
@arclight On its face, the quoted argument seems to suggest that I can't improve my understanding of a subject by reading a human-written summary either. But sometimes reading a human-written summary does improve my understanding.
Does the linked article address this objection? If so I'll be interested to read it, but the quoted sentence doesn't seem promising.
John-Paul Flintoff
Mark Dominus