Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia
sandflavoured@lemm.ee 3 days ago
My immediate thought is that the purpose of an encyclopaedia is to have a more-or-less comprehensive overview of some topic of interest. The reader should be able to look through the page index to find the section they care about and read that section.
Its purpose is not to rapidly teach anyone anything in full.
It seems like a poor fit as an application for LLMs