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Your AI summary is raw output, like uncooked mince meat.

Ask for a rewriting pass! Get it to edit for word count, remove redundancies, remove run-on sentences, and change sentence structure to use active voice.

You wouldn't ship your first draft - why let AI do it?

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I mean... the problem with that, as with all the "you have to go back and forth with the AI" scenarios, is that by the time I finish with that I may as well have just written it myself to begin with. Would take a similar amount of time, actually have my voice in it, and not cost money for tokens.

If all you need is a readable summary you can understand you should definitely try asking. You might get a surprise!

Worst case you lose 10 seconds of your life. Not too bad!

I agree, I also sometimes do stuff manually when it's easier to do manually than to ask AI. Took me years before I got it though.

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