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The upshot: these AI summaries were so bad that the assessors agreed that using them could require more work down the line, because of the amount of fact-checking they require. If that's the case, then the purported upsides of using the technology — cost-cutting and time-saving — are seriously called into question.

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

The upshot: these AI summaries were so bad that the assessors agreed that using them could require more work down the line

Oh man, this'd be really bad if we structured our society in such a way that instead of taking a holistic approach of looking at things it was all random KPIs in an excel file that measure one very narrow field of view of things like how fast I am at my job