Comment on A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own EndingparentComments−gwern1yAssuming the summary is accurate. Which I'm not sure is the case - as it happens, yesterday an actual LLM summary of OP struck me as missing important parts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1g8so93/a_contro...−CamperBob21yIt's accurate but not deep enough. It's pretty important to specify the summary length you're after, in my experience, rather than just leaving it up to the model.I asked GPT4o explicitly for an 800-word summary just now, roughly one page of single-spaced text, and I really don't see how it could have done much better: https://chatgpt.com/share/671810c7-477c-800b-a752-376ce6074a...
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Assuming the summary is accurate. Which I'm not sure is the case - as it happens, yesterday an actual LLM summary of OP struck me as missing important parts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1g8so93/a_contro...
It's accurate but not deep enough. It's pretty important to specify the summary length you're after, in my experience, rather than just leaving it up to the model.
I asked GPT4o explicitly for an 800-word summary just now, roughly one page of single-spaced text, and I really don't see how it could have done much better: https://chatgpt.com/share/671810c7-477c-800b-a752-376ce6074a...