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Re:We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars by IshKebab on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:12PM (#38784041)
Who wants to read a transcript of a podcast. 99% invisible does this so much better - a long podcast with all the details, accompanied by a short article with photos. More work of course, but that's what the AI solves.
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Re:We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars by black_puppydog on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:14PM (#38784740)
People who can't hear, just for example?

And fwiw, "this isn't condensed enough" could be applied to 100% of novels, achieving a 100% compression rate, since none of it is useful.

I'm very sorry if you're the one person with a cockroach infestation that has to be eradicated right now and you critically depend on the information in this one article and don't have access to any other resources, but maybe just accept that there are different writing styles for different things, audiences, and even over time for the same person.

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Re:We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars by IshKebab on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:29PM (#38786326)
> People who can't hear, just for example?

I don't see why people who can't hear would like to read a transcript of a podcast rather than an article either.

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