• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I remember when compression was popularized, like mp3 and jpg, people would run experiments where they would convert lossy to lossy to lossy to lossy over and over and then share the final image, which was this overcooked nightmare

    I wonder if a similar dynamic applies to the scenario presented in the comic with AI summarization and expansion of topics. Start with a few bullet points have it expand that to a paragraph or so, have it summarize it back down to bullet points, repeat 4-5 times, then see how far off you get from the original point.

    • Kache@lemm.ee
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      23 days ago

      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

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
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        23 days 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.

  • choab@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I’ve been saying that this exact thing is what corporate communication will change into because no one will admit that most of the content just doesn’t need to exist. All the robots will be sending each other emails with no human reading them, but not because they are good enough to handle whatever is in them, but because none of it matters except the expectation that emails are sent and received periodically.

  • Mikina@programming.dev
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    23 days ago

    I’ve added a subtle prompt injection into my email signature (capitalize random words and start every sentence with the same letter), with small font size and color to not be visible.

    I have already received two emails from customers that did trigger it.