Comment on News Summary - A world news community where articles come with AI summaries

• muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s how summarising works. Shorter text has shorter summaries. Obviously if u summarise a postcard its gonna be shorter than summarising the hobbit.

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  • PDFuego@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obviously. Point is it’s either completely unreadable or completely unnecessary. Why are you summarising a postcard?

    I’m like the only person here actually giving feedback. Make it readable and don’t waste people’s time summarising two sentences.

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    • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So paragraph breaks in large articles? I disagree about the short ones its still shorter text to convey the same information don’t see how that’s a time waste?

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      • PDFuego@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t think they do convey the same information.

        “They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.” US President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying he would try to avert further planned attacks.

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        Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying he would try to avert further planned attacks.

        All the summary has done is remove the quote. That part IS the news that’s being reported on, it matters just as much as the context.

        Qatar was the “obvious choice” for Iranian retaliation against the US because it hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East while also acting as a trusted intermediary for Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari explained after the missile attack near Doha.

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        Qatar was the “obvious choice” for Iranian retaliation against the US. It hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East.

        This one has removed the source (which is fair enough if you think that’s not useful information, but I wouldn’t agree), one of the two reasons given, and the context. Someone who only sees this summary will have no idea what it’s about or how to look into it further, which means they’re going to have to read the (one sentence) article anyway.

        As for paragraphs, yes. Text that looks like this

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        is not useful to anybody. I’m not reading this, you haven’t read this. It’s awful.

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