Was looking for this link for ages and finally found it so I'm posting it here to not lose it - LLMs do NOT summarize.
A summary strips out everything but the essential. GenAI merely shortens the text - with no understanding of what was important.
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When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…
