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As articles are increasingly published with AI, this becomes yet another example of, to coin a phrase, AI loopidity.

This is so good! Finally the word I need to describe what I'm living. And yes I'm copy pasting articles into LLMs for summary.

If writers are using ai to write articles, and readers are using ai to summarize the same article, what's the underlying inefficiency here? That writers should just be posting brief summaries of the articles in the first place? Or maybe they just need to be prompting ai to create a summary rather than a full article?

Differences in how people want to consume the article, and what information they’re looking for. Some want snippets, some want summaries, some want long form.

We have information compression machines now. Might as well raw dump the information and let the machine package it up in the format we prefer for consumption, instead of pre-packaging it. (Yeah, this is effectively what authors are doing…currently they can still do novel things that the compression machines can’t, but how long will that last?)

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