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Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Unless it doesn't accurately represent the topic, which happens, and then a researcher chooses not to read the text based on the chatbot's summary.

Nirvana fallacy.

All these chatbots do is guess. I'm just saying a researcher might as well cut out the hallucinating middleman.