Post #2380410
2026-02-01 15:33 UTC
@tomstoneham@dair-community.social Full disclosure: I summarized depositions for a living for a number of years, which shapes my opinion here, but I totally agree.
Good summarization is like an efficient software compression algorithm: you're reducing size without eliminating the meaningful content.
That requires a certain amount of judgement regarding what is meaningful in what's being summarized, in my view.
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@tomstoneham@dair-community.social 2026-02-01 16:58
@whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz One thing no compression algorithm could do is spot when the original author has misjudged what is important. And LLMs are even worse because they flatten the unusual.