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[–] 54 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

In my experience, LLMs aren't really that good at summarizing

It's more like they can "rewrite more concisely" which is a bit different

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Summarizing requires understanding what's important, and LLMs don't "understand" anything.

    They can reduce word counts, and they have some statistical models that can tell them which words are fillers. But, the hilarious state of Apple Intelligence shows how frequently that breaks.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I used to play this game with Google translate when it was newish

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There is, or maybe was, a YouTube channel that would run well known song lyrics through various layers of translation, then attempt to sing the result to the tune of the original.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    translation party!

    Throw Japanese into English into Japanese into English ad nauseum, untill an 'equilibrium' statement is reached.

    ... Which was quite often nowhere near the original statement, in either language... but at least the translation algorithm agreed with itself.

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