Welp... I wondered when Google would start encouraging me to put my work profile into Firefox, I guess today is the day.
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#102“Summarize this YouTube video” (given a link) is what I’d like to see and Google could easily do when there’s a transcript, but they’d probably rather make people watch the video. I think Kagi might do this? Any other good solutions?
Exactly. It's already easy enough to scan an article in 15 seconds to get the overall gist. But scanning through a YouTube transcript, in the tiny box, without any punctuation, without paragraphs, without sections, takes forever.
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#103Great, another excuse for people not to read the article.
We've got enough problems with people reading a headline and running with it. I hate to think of google summarizing some scientific study - particularly some "pop" scientific study - and have everyone confidently reciting it as though it's been conclusively proven without making any effort to look at the source.
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#104At the risk of sounding like an old man — heck, I guess I am — is this innovation ethical for humanity's future? A one-click "tl;dr" button for the web? There are studies saying overall human attention span is shrinking. Anecdotally, I know people in their 20s who use TikTok daily, and they're no longer able to watch a movie without losing focus. Squeezing all aspects of our digital life, including learning new skill…
If we're going off anecdotes, we've also seen an explosion in popularity of the 2-3 hour podcast and season long Netflix binges.
Doesn't this generation have an absurdly long attention span compared to the generation of the 30 minute TV show with three 2-3 minute commercial breaks?
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#105Privacy aside if it's done server side, I think this crosses another dangerous line. With this, Google controls how content you read is summarized, they could introduce biases, intentionally or not, and I'm not sure we should trust such an actor for this.
Google has always introduced biases by virtue of ranking your results and deciding which content to surface. This was always the case.
It's hard to make a search engine. Any decision they make will create bias and shape the entire web.
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#106Hard pass. I don't want Google, or even a trustworthy neutral party, to decide my view of the world. (Compromised as it may be already.) We're all unique and unpredictable. In a given article, a random sentence or point considered throwaway by most people and algorithms could turn out to be meaningful to me. I've been trained not to even trust the basic facts they pull of out content like movie showtimes or whatever.…
I agree entirely.
I have no interest in AI summarizing anything at all for me. Not because of AI, but because I have no interest in anyone or anything summarizing for me. Too much is lost.
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#107Hard pass. I don't want Google, or even a trustworthy neutral party, to decide my view of the world. (Compromised as it may be already.) We're all unique and unpredictable. In a given article, a random sentence or point considered throwaway by most people and algorithms could turn out to be meaningful to me. I've been trained not to even trust the basic facts they pull of out content like movie showtimes or whatever.…
It’s summarizing. That is by its very nature a reduction of an article to certain bias elements. It’s not rocket science or some evil magic. Jeeze you’d think HackerNews never used anything that wasn’t a home brew open source libertarian approved product if you believed the comments here.
"It’s not rocket science or some evil magic"
It sure is.
If you had told people in 2019 that a computer program could summarize large topics and write cogent output you would have been placed in the asylum.
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#108OK Google, now summarize YouTube videos so I don't have to watch the entire videos or the ads.
Luckily there are AI tools out there do this.
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#109Reading is not a binary process and you can scale your engagement with any written work. If you use a variety of techniques, there is probably no need for a machine summary.
For example, start by skimming and scanning an article and you may be able to pull out all the salient points and satisfy your reading goal or choose to go deeper with your analysis depending on time and interest and what you are trying to accomplish:
https://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/researching/skim-and-scan...
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