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@futurebird @CptSuperlative @emilymbender Summarisation is the one I’d be most nervous about because creating a summary is hard: it requires understanding the content and knowing which parts are relevant in a given context, which is why LLMs tend to be awful at it. They don’t understand the content, which is how you get news summaries that get the subject and object the wrong way around in a murder. They don’t know what is important, which is how you get email summaries that contain a scam message and strip all of the markers that would make it obvious that the message is a scam.

If you’re going to read all of them and are just picking an order, that’s probably fine. The worst that a bad summary can do is make you read them in the wrong order and that’s not really a problem.