Re:ai;dr
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 12, 2026 @01:09PM
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Well, LLMs can be either side of that. They can also be used to turn something verbose into a series of bullet points.
I agree that reading an LLM-produced essay is a waste of time and (human) attention. But in the case of overly-verbose human writing, it's the human that's wasting my time[1], and the LLM is gzip'ing the spew.
[1] Looking at you, New Yorker magazine.
Re:ai;dr
by steveBK123 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @01:13PM
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Right we are headed towards LLM generated slop summarized by another LLM. Wire format is expanded slop.
> I agree that reading an LLM-produced essay is a waste of time and (human) attention. But in the case of overly-verbose human writing, it's the human that's wasting my time[1], and the LLM is gzip'ing the spew.
gzip is lossless, LLM summaries are not.
We can run each LLM-produced essay through an LLM to reduce it to bullet points.
We can then run it through another LLM to reduce it to a single bullet point.
Then we can run it through a final filter, which reduces it to "ai;dr".
It’s literal content expansion, the opposite of gzip’ing a file.
It’s like a kid who has a 500 word essay due tomorrow who needs to pad their actual message up to spec.