book summaries with no clutter

Ken F Hill · December 14

Suggestion : allow users to fine-tune the way AI Summaries respond.

For example, I invoked a summary of a segment in the course, NT201 The Cultural World of the New Testament. The summary used phrases like, "The text outlines" and "It emphasizes" and "The text discusses". I ran the same text through chatGPT without getting these editorial transitions.

Maybe some readers like this style. For me, these types of phrases are speed bumps I stumble over. Instead of saying, "the text discusses" just tell me what it discusses. Just summarize the actual book content and leave out these little transitions and preludes of what is obvious.

Maybe allow users to specify a style or give specific instructions about how the response should be presented - informal, academic, without transition phrases, etc.

Here is one sentence :
"The text discusses how honor and shame were central to social interactions, influencing decision-making and community dynamics."

"The text discusses how" is clutter.

comparison :

The text discusses how honor and shame were central to social interactions ...
Honor and shame were central to social interactions ...

DMB · December 14

Just one opinion. I suspect FL needs to buffer the AI from the conclusions it reviews.

But … maybe so, your recommendation.

MJ. Smith · December 14

Using the interpretation of forum posts as my benchmark, I think @DMB hit the nail on the head. However, @Ken F Hill is correct. If one understands what the summary is summarizing, all the "text discusses" stuff is duplicated, unnecessary, useless waste of space that could be better spent on the actual content of the summary.