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minus-squareNfamwap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·8 days agoI only have a basic knowledge of tech, but surely something as simple as sending summarised news headlines, from whatever sources, could be easily managed by I dunno, a human? Is AI really necessary here?
minus-squareRamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoNecessary? No. But cheap and obedient. Humans poop and eat and need to sleep.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 days agoApple already had a summary service that’s been in the OS for over ten years. Not sure why they decided they needed to use AI to fuck this up. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/07/how-to-shorten-long-text-documents-in-macos-with-the-summarize-service
I only have a basic knowledge of tech, but surely something as simple as sending summarised news headlines, from whatever sources, could be easily managed by I dunno, a human?
Is AI really necessary here?
Necessary? No. But cheap and obedient. Humans poop and eat and need to sleep.
Apple already had a summary service that’s been in the OS for over ten years. Not sure why they decided they needed to use AI to fuck this up.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/07/how-to-shorten-long-text-documents-in-macos-with-the-summarize-service