I’m going to be another Negative Nancy commenting, but I really dislike the recent trend of having everything summarized by AI. News articles are, by definition, already summaries of events (hopefully summarized by a human, but that’s becoming rarer and rarer recently). Is it really necessary to further filter them through another robotic sieve and strip them from even more meaning and soul? How busy are we really that we need a machine to summarize news, videos and even emails for us?

I strongly believe that reading things written by humans has value. Regardless whether it’s War and Peace, a comic book or an email from my colleague, I want to read them just as their authors wrote them, instead of having a Markov chain machine retell them to me. Call me old and curmudgeonly, but I actually WANT to spend time reading, experience all the human quirks, biases, typos, mistakes and everything else that’s stripped away whena text is fed into a machine, because it tells me things about the author in addition to the content itself. Hell, the whole reason I started learning English (not my mother language) in the first place was because I wanted to read The Lord of the Rings as Tolkien himself wrote it, without it being filtered through a translator (even though the translation I read was actually excellent).

A long and unnecessary rant, I know, but I wish humanity didn’t immediately jump on the AI bandwagon in anything and everything. Books, articles and videos don’t really need to be summarized IMHO, and I think we lose way more through it than the minuscule amount of time we gain…