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rahmanyoo | 2 months ago

This maybe an unpopular stance, when i read to learn something new or a fictional story, i noticed AI summaries misses the nuances of good writing that our brain intuitively picks up.

For some reason (maybe there is a psychological explanation), information retention is better when i read from the source rather than an AI summary.

Reward of learning something new in its original form, vastly outweighs ‘time saved’ by AI summaries.

What works for me, pass 1 is scanning through original text, pass 2 is digging into areas that needs deeper understanding and pass 3 is assessing understanding using AI summaries.

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thomoliverz|2 months ago

Completely agree.

Direction of travel for this is less re: summaries and more re: creating time for the user to actually read the content in full.

Made some changes based on your feedback to that effect, this week, too. E.g. now when you receive the briefing you can go through the original content side by side to actually deep read.

You can test here: https://read-fast.replit.app/

Would be grateful for your thoughts!