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I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by phil21 »

bix6 wrote: post #8

AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries? And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

Tune out of the useless meeting and do something useful with your time. Read the 5 bullet point summary afterwards.

If it gets things wrong, oh well. Not much of value was lost.

This describes the vast majority of meetings held in the corporate world.

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by sbysb »

bix6 wrote: post #8

AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries? And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

I mean most of these tools pair the notes/transcript with a video recording of the call. It can be super helpful to search the summaries to find the right recording, and then click the line in the transcript to re-watch the meeting.

For work, this is strictly better than not recording the meeting, as it allows for much faster searching, and it is very rarely wrong about the high level topics of a convo. I almost always go "General AI summary search" -> Transcript -> recording when trying to remember a specific item from a call.

That being said the parent article is spot on and I can't imagine someone bringing a recording to a conversation they aren't being paid to have.

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by brianjking »

I can understand and appreciate the hesitation. I must admit I've simply adjusted to the idea that anywhere that I am, outside of my house, I assume someone is potentially recording or transcribing at a minimum audio.

I'm frankly far more upset by the lack of privacy due to poor security from credit reporting agencies than I am of these notetakers.

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by bad_username »

bix6 wrote: post #8

AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries? And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

> what are you gonna do with all those notes?

Dump them in Obsidian with an LLM agent bolted on. This note may never be consciously re-read, but it will become silent part of the context for conversations with the agent in the future. It is _ridiculous_ how useful this approach is.

That pertains to work meetings, though. I would never bring a recorder to a coffee shop.

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by fragmede »

FromTheFirstIn wrote: post #2

This is strictly a San Francisco tech problem. This isn’t happening to most people

You think people in Austin or Denver or Atlanta don't have the same Zoom app, with the same AI helper as the one they give to San Francisco people?

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by rudolftheone »

phil21 wrote: post #11
bix6 wrote: post #8

AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries? And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

Tune out of the useless meeting and do something useful with your time. Read the 5 bullet point summary afterwards. If it gets things wrong, oh well. Not much of value was lost. This describes the vast majority of meetings held in the corporate world.

That's not what the article is about. The author describes using AI Note takers in PRIVATE meetings :)

That's astonishing for me, first time I hear about such a practice

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by bix6 »

bad_username wrote: post #15
bix6 wrote: post #8

AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries? And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

> what are you gonna do with all those notes? Dump them in Obsidian with an LLM agent bolted on. This note may never be consciously re-read, but it will become silent part of the context for conversations with the agent in the future. It is _ridiculous_ how useful this approach is. That pertains to work meetings, though. I would never bring a recorder to a coffee shop.

So useful how? Like what does this context actually end up doing for you?

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by FromTheFirstIn »

fragmede wrote: post #16
FromTheFirstIn wrote: post #2

This is strictly a San Francisco tech problem. This isn’t happening to most people

You think people in Austin or Denver or Atlanta don't have the same Zoom app, with the same AI helper as the one they give to San Francisco people?

I think they have the same app, but they don’t use it like this. It seems like you’re confident this happens a lot- do you live in San Francisco?

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

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Post by cratermoon »

bad_username wrote: post #15
bix6 wrote: post #8

AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries? And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

> what are you gonna do with all those notes? Dump them in Obsidian with an LLM agent bolted on. This note may never be consciously re-read, but it will become silent part of the context for conversations with the agent in the future. It is _ridiculous_ how useful this approach is. That pertains to work meetings, though. I would never bring a recorder to a coffee shop.

Sounds about the same idea as taking a low-res picture of a document and saving it as a low-quality jpeg in folder full of low quality jpegs and then expecting those images to be useful.
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