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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman/statuses/116130680586718437">Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 21:49:55 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman" title="urlyman@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/161114-48-20250126152727.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Jonathan Schofield" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Jonathan Schofield</a></section><article><p>“When will [an LLM] shortening the text be good enough for a reliable summary? Probably only when summarising consists of nothing else than turning something unnecessarily repetitive and long-winding into something short. That is far less of a use case than people think.<br>…<br>It really might take a while until people have experienced enough of this for GPT-fever to pass.”<br><a href="https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116122024069598014" rel="nofollow">https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116122024069598014</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6185191#notice-12188168">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-02-25T21:49:55+09:00" title="Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 21:49:55 JST">about 5 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116130680586718437" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116130680586718437">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116122024069598014">JWcph, Radicalized By Decency (@jwcph@helvede.net)</a></h5><div> from <span>JWcph, Radicalized By Decency</span></div></header><div>@cwebber@social.coop Also, don't use it for "summarize" because it literally can't do that. https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 21:49:55 JST Jonathan Schofield
“When will [an LLM] shortening the text be good enough for a reliable summary? Probably only when summarising consists of nothing else than turning something unnecessarily repetitive and long-winding into something short. That is far less of a use case than people think.
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It really might take a while until people have experienced enough of this for GPT-fever to pass.”
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  @cwebber@social.coop Also, don't use it for "summarize" because it literally can't do that. https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

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