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This is just a trust issue, which applies to pretty much any task where there is delegation.

If you ask an intern to summarize some text, you trust them to do a half decent job. You're not going to re-read the original text. The hiring process is meant to filter out bad interns.

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If an intern gets it wrong, then you can sit down with them and teach them the correct process. Hopefully over time they get better, and once the trust is built you then stop being so involved. If they don't get any better, you find someone else to summarize for you.

You can't go through this process with an AI, every time it's just a shot in the dark.

With a specific model (just like with an intern), you only need to evaluate their work a certain amount of times to decide whether they're doing their job good enough to leave them alone and continue without further supervision

> If you ask an intern to summarize some text, you trust them to do a half decent job

Yes.

And if I were to propose that we filter all information we consume through completel unqualified interns summarizing it, I'd be laughed out of the room.

Yet that is the future all these AI firms seek to build.

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