• sramder@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Anyone else immediately get a migraine trying to read the first 2 paragraphs/sentences of that article?

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      5 months ago

      Is it because oft the author using multiple clauses and multiple layers of context in the first two paragraphs?

      If yes, then I understand why. I find myself making the same mistake quite often because my first language is German, which often uses clauses (at least it’s more common than in english).

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        5 months ago

        Most likely. My own unfamiliarity with the subject matter plays a part too.

        It wasn’t badly written… but it probably could have used a brief introduction.

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          Yes, they’re using several abbreviations, without explaining them properly, which isn’t ideal. It’s likely to keep the article short, which comes at the expense of people unfamiliar with the topic)l/organizations.

          Another news site I regularly visit has a small information button besides abbreviations with a popup to explain a term, which also links to Wikipedia. This makes understanding articles about unfamiliar topics way easier.

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            5 months ago

            I’m not mad at it :-) It was written for people who were familiar with the situation and posted in a subject matter specific forum.

            24 hours later I feel like a bit of an ass. I thought about how many times I’ve picked up a technical article and wished for a bit less background… it’s kind of nice that we don’t have to talk about the whole history of OSS before getting to the news/subject.

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          I noticed those language models don’t work well for articles with dense information and complex sentence structure. Sometimes they forget the most important point.

          They are useful as a TLDR but shouldn’t be taken as fact, at least not yet and for the foreseeable future.

          A bit off topic, but I’ve read a comment in another community where someone asked chatgpt something and confidently posted the answer. Problem: the answer is wrong. That’s why it’s so important to mark AI LLM generated texts (which the TLDR bots do).

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            5 months ago

            I think the Internet would benefit a lot, if peope would mark their Informations with sources!

            • source my brain
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              Yeah that’s right. Having to post sources rules out usage of LLMs for the most part, since most of them do a terrible job at providing them - even if the information is correct for once.