Nowadays a lot of websites are written in a style that goes on and on and on dancing around a topic, adding historical context all in a terrible writing style only to lengthen the text for SEO. In such cases a summary can be a good thing.
It's really not that deep. There's writing you read for its aesthetic merits and writing you read for its contents. When you want the latter but the piece is written for the former a summary fixes the mismatch.
Even if I want to read the entirety of a piece of long form writing I'll often summarize it (with Kagi key points mode) so that I know what the overall points are and can follow the writing better. Too much long form writing is written like some mystery thriller where the writer has to unpack an entire storyline before they'll state their main thesis, so it helps my reading comprehension to know what the point is going in. The personal interest stories that precede the main content always land better that way.
Why don't you try using these tools yourself so you have an understanding of them? People like to get shit summarized, its really not as deep as you are trying to make it out to be.
You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.
Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
sometimes you don't have time to read an entirety of a large article. You want a quick summary, some people are poor at summarizing things in their head as they go and can get lost in dense text. Extensions like these really help me with headers, structure that I want to follow, quick overview and gives me an idea if I want to deep dive further.
Sometimes it's not even an article, but a video. And sometimes all you care is just a single tiny fact from that video.
Although I don't think this particular summarizer works for videos. And I don't think Ollama API supports audio ingestion for transcription. There are some summarizers that work with YouTube specifically (using automatic subtitles).
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People write too much. Get to the point.
I think you just insulted every journalist on Earth.
Nowadays a lot of websites are written in a style that goes on and on and on dancing around a topic, adding historical context all in a terrible writing style only to lengthen the text for SEO. In such cases a summary can be a good thing.
It's really not that deep. There's writing you read for its aesthetic merits and writing you read for its contents. When you want the latter but the piece is written for the former a summary fixes the mismatch.
Even if I want to read the entirety of a piece of long form writing I'll often summarize it (with Kagi key points mode) so that I know what the overall points are and can follow the writing better. Too much long form writing is written like some mystery thriller where the writer has to unpack an entire storyline before they'll state their main thesis, so it helps my reading comprehension to know what the point is going in. The personal interest stories that precede the main content always land better that way.
any point? regardless of what's written? does that work for you?
Why don't you try using these tools yourself so you have an understanding of them? People like to get shit summarized, its really not as deep as you are trying to make it out to be.
Did you read my original point? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814310 given that, why on earth would I waste my time?
Also note
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650
sometimes you don't have time to read an entirety of a large article. You want a quick summary, some people are poor at summarizing things in their head as they go and can get lost in dense text. Extensions like these really help me with headers, structure that I want to follow, quick overview and gives me an idea if I want to deep dive further.
Sometimes it's not even an article, but a video. And sometimes all you care is just a single tiny fact from that video.
Although I don't think this particular summarizer works for videos. And I don't think Ollama API supports audio ingestion for transcription. There are some summarizers that work with YouTube specifically (using automatic subtitles).
Speaking of, I made also a youtube summarizer at https://github.com/tcsenpai/youlama