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TLDR- Summaries on SN
1611 sats \ 17 comments \ @grayruby 27 Apr 2023 meta
Many postings on SN are links to exterior articles, blog posts, youtube clips, podcasts etc. Would you find it useful if the context of these links was summarized in the comments? Essentially a TLDR.
Yay- TLDR for the win91.4%
Nay- I will click if I choose8.6%
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640 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 27 Apr 2023
It would be cool to have chatgpt summary... (and e.g. cache those during time of creating the post). It could be nice to have that somehow auto-open next to the "related"?
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502 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 27 Apr 2023
Please, don't bring the DemonGPT here.
At least not in its current hyper-centralized form.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @phygit 28 Apr 2023
ChatGPT is amazing and an obvious choice to do this.
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670 sats \ 3 replies \ @03d2338e4e 28 Apr 2023
TLDR - YES. Making it mandatory would encourage even higher quality content instead of (what seems to be happening now more often) blatant attempts at sat farming.
Machine learning/ChatGPT TLDR - NO. FUCK NO.
Read Dune and the reasoning behind why computers were outlawed, it makes a lot more sense than it sounds.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 28 Apr 2023
Making it mandatory would encourage even higher quality content instead of (what seems to be happening now more often) blatant attempts at sat farming.
How come? You think someone who does not want to provide it will provide "higher quality content"? They will just half-ass it or not post at all.
I don't think you meant them not posting links at all with "higher quality content".
Also reminds me a bit of survivorship bias: Yes, the ones which will still post links and provide mandatory TLDR will probably be greater content.
But maybe a lot of links won't be posted at all then.
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @03d2338e4e 28 Apr 2023
If it's worth half assing then it's not worth posting.
Less lower quality content = Higher quality content overall.
Most would probably be very happy with a new post every 20 minutes worth a discussion rather than a simple link and shitty headline posted every 2 minutes like now.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 28 Apr 2023
Most would probably be very happy with a new post every 20 minutes worth a discussion rather than a simple link and shitty headline posted every 2 minutes like now.
Well, I disagree. I am here to stay up to date on news and not read summaries of random people.
Btw, you don't need to scroll "Recent" if all you want is "new post every 20 minutes worth of a discussion".
That sounds a lot like what the main page is for.
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168 sats \ 1 reply \ @scottathan 27 Apr 2023
You know, someone could quite easily make an AutoGPT bot to read from articles and summarize them in the comments.
What I feel might work best though is a third option beyond "link" and "discussion", and instead a tldr option that displays like a link but gives space for a brief article description.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Apr 2023
Yes someone who is not me. I have found a couple AI summary applications that I thought I could use to input the text and get a summary out but no idea how to create a bot that clicks link, reads article and comes back and summarizes.
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192 sats \ 1 reply \ @ThrillerX_ 28 Apr 2023
I literally do this for almost all my posts no one throws sats for that.🤷‍♂️
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Apr 2023
Will look out for your posts. I always try to give some sats to posters who add some context.
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396 sats \ 0 replies \ @tldr_dead 11 May 2023
The question is posed whether or not users of SN would find summarized "TLDR" comments on external links useful. The goal would be to provide context for users and keep them from having to read the entire article.
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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 27 Apr 2023
Adding a description field to the link content type would be one option.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 28 Apr 2023
Yes please, if links could pull in either the open graph tag or the meta description set on the page that alone can help, but sure if there's a custom description you can add or use chatgpt to add it that would be cool too
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 28 Apr 2023
How about it be an optional feature where you pay a couple of extra sats to unlock...
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @KoreaComK 28 Apr 2023
Sure. That is one of the things that I do here. :) Sometimes people don't have time or don't think that is good enough to read, so I made a TL;DR, for people see if that is good or not to be read.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 11 May 2023
@tldr
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