Is this summary helpful?

When the summary is presented there, like that, of course, it seems helpful.

I'm certain the majority of people will respond with "yes", without checking the user's post history to verify the summary. The responses will be biased, making the whole thing worse, and giving opportunity to disingenuous marketing and justification.

We can only hope they interpret and use it for that: indicating usefulness, not correctness. Who knows what kind of metrics they use for correctness, if at all, and what type of faults they deem acceptable.

I also noticed that the youtube app recently started giving "help" about what comment to write. That small area where you can comment on a video, it showed something like "what's the best band you heard? 🤔". I'm not sure if that is a new thing creators can add, but with the think smiley it feels very much like AI". I don't need AI to tell me what kind of comment to give. It feels like AI is trying to dilute my thoughts.

And i continue not regretting deleting everything i ever posted on Reddit for 17 years when i left them during the APIcalypse fiasco (yes, i imagine it's all archived somewhere anyway, but at least it's not there for them to use at this time)

A black box you can't look inside making determinations that could affect your access to the entire site. How dystopian. It's also pretty clearly only useful for pruning users en masse and not have to bother with the responsibility a moderator should be subject to.

Yeah, so this was always going to happen eventually, right? It's yet another reason you're not anonymous online unless you actually are.

Next stop, AI-powered doxxing.

I was going to say that this might actually be a good idea, but then I remembered how often AI summaries get key details completely the wrong way around.

I still think it's a good idea in concept: modding is hard, or so I hear, and this could be a very valuable tool if it worked as it's supposed to. I doubt it would.

There are some details that I'd have done differently too, if I was somehow forced to implement something like this. For example, for each point in the summary (e.g. "talks about US politics") there should be a list of comments/posts by the user to exemplify what they say and how they write. It's useless if the summary doesn't show you what it's based on.

So glad I deleted my account

What the fuuuuuck 😳

I can see how that could be a useful mod tool, but still (see line 1).

So happy I left that hellhole 😮‍💨

Edit: Although I guess this means I should have invested the time in deleting all my posts; probably too late now 🙄

And damn, now I really want to know what their AI thinks of me! 😅

Overall, I can see liking this. But mostly I think the summaries should be public.

In general the problem with moderators is they can be fairly partisan. I don't know if it's still the case after the whole API ... thing, but certain groups of moderators had access to bots that did what is essentially equivalent to the sort of thing. What tended to happen is the good mods would become overwhelmed and bring on a "power mod" and the powermod has secret axes to grind and political agendas that they bring with them into the sub.

Another problem I generally had with reddit towards the end of my serious engagement there is that a lot of things reported to admin started being evaluated by non-American English speakers who don't have the cultural context to understand sharp turns of phrase and plays on idioms. Americans would understand the words mean the opposite of what they literally say, but you can't expect ESL overseas contractors to understand these nuances. So I would be concerned that AI is similar... except for the fact that it's not really a change from the status quo.

Would be nice if we also had AI summaries of moderator behavior and if these were visible to everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if admin have (or soon will have) access to AI summaries of moderator activity and behavior. So that might be another shoe to drop. I can see it can be good if it improves modding for the good mods who just want to build communities. Basically it might reduce the need for the powermod protection racket.

I kinda want to see what nonsense it says about me.