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I have never seen an AI meeting summary that was useful or sufficient in explaining what happened in the meeting. I have no idea what people use them for other than as a status signal

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In my company we sometimes cherry-pick parts of the AI summaries and send them to the clients just to confirm the stuff that we agreed on during a meeting. The customers know that the summary is AI-generated and they don't mind. Sometimes people come to me and ask whether what they read in the summary was really discussed in the meeting or is it just AI hallucinating but I can usually assure them that we really did discuss that. So these can be useful to a degree.

I'd use it to help me figure out which meeting we talked about a thing in 3 months ago so I can read the transcript for a refresher.

Why do people want to signal their low status?

That’s a good point, an AI email/Slack/summary postions you as at bootlicker at best, writing summaries to look good, and a failed secretary at most, but in any case of low value on the real-work scale.

I’m just afraid this kind of types are the future people who get promoted.

In their minds it is a signal of high status.

It’s an attempt to be “cutting edge”

I use them to seem engaged about something I don’t actually care about.

It’s painfully common to invite a laundry list of people to meetings.

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