On 12/18/25 18:06, Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote: > [...] My apologies if I have broken the unspoken rule of not citing > my sources and, as a result, if I have offended anyone.
Dear Jean-Pierre, I think as a general rule it is an excellent idea to cite all relevant sources (to give other people the opportunity to check if I’m missing something [or the whole point] there). My apologies for having reacted in such a poorly manner. If it helps to understand, I felt something like being fed a mechanical summary in something I had to learn by experience and some extra effort (dedicating much free time during months) to understand what was wrong and how it could be fixed. That being said, I’m afraid I think it shouldn’t be a problem finding disgusting AI-generated summaries (or texts, for that matter). I have never asked for AI-generated summaries, but as Hans mentioned, the only thing left for “Acrobat Reader” to display is “this text is long and you look incredibly stupid today, let me summarize it for you”. Since I have been exposed to that kind of “help” (AI-generated summaries sent to me), there are two main issues I have with all AI-generated text. Their accuracy is similar to be able to recognize a romanesque cauliflower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli) only as as cauliflower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflower). I’m afraid I cannot avoid thinking they are way different vegetables. The verbosity and pompousness in these texts only matches their shallowness. In short, too much words for almost nothing at all. I also think that this kind of textual input decreases reading comprehension and text composition in humans. This is why I think AI-generated text should be avoided in written communication, or at least it should be warned about and marked as such. We are getting there in having `poppler` as reasonable PDF signing software, but the process is painfully slow (too much to do, very few people to do it). I hope it won’t take years to have relevant feature parity with signatures in “Acrobat Reader” (which I’m not a fan of, but it is a useful program in that regard). Best wishes, Pablo ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
