I started asking AI for general summeries of books that I didn't find interesting but nevertheless wanted to know the general gist of the book. First it was just a shitty book I forgotten about. Then I asked the AI for another and realized I enjoyed reading the synopsises of books than actually reading of them. It's easier to do and I read 20 of them so far and feeling quite satisfied and content understanding those 20 books.You guys should try it out. You can read the plot of several books in one sitting.
>>25570261I am reading GR by TP and after about 50 pages I ax grok for a qrd. Been gud.
>>25570261When I ask AI about topics I already know about they give watered down explainations. I feel like If I used AI to explore new things as a primary method I would have the understanding of it of a B- High school student with a surfacelevel idea of the thing. As a suplement I think its fine however. For example when I asked about the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich it said that it often invoked the Sublime, but when I commented that I thought it had a different feeling it transitioned to saying the "sublime" is a lazy label and maybe "Sehnsucht" would be more apt.
>>25570261Just read the plot section of Wikipedia and stop wasting water.
>>25570261no thanks, its going to eliminate the process, much like generating art with ai. You wont get anything other than the utilitarian side of 'finishing the book' as the result of it - that you read books, you watch movies, you make art because you want to finish it as in consumption, because your orientation was to finish that thing rather than enjoying that thing.I think what most ai techbros failed to understand is that we have an excess energy and we need to spend that excess energy in doing things like this. I mean, Its fine if you stopped reading mid way and ask ai for context or what happened in there if you lost in the plot, but to completely get rid of that reading activity itself for the sake of goals, metrics, or social rewards like logging that thing to goodreads is really not preferable. Keep doing the same thing and you'll live in endless spiral of consumption between one thing to another much like those adhd kids who cant sit in front of their tv for 5 minutes straight
>>25570292This. And you avoid ai hallucinations. A bot pulls more shit out of its ass in a day than a chimpanzee does in a year. How do you know that any of those plot summaries you read were accurate?
I haven't used AI since 2022 when it was novel and silly. Everyone's telling me I need to use it or I'll never develop "AI skills," whatever that means. Hm. I think I'll be contrarian and not use it; no goyfodder for me. People who use it are bovine, domesticated, and compliant.
>>25570292>stop wasting waterI see this is the next performative outrage colloquialism making the rounds regarding AI now. AI is great and will be a massive benefit to humanity. I feel like the people who lash out against AI so fervently do so out of ressentiment. When they hear doomspeak of AI replacing humans they believe themselves to be said humans, and they believe this due to the fact that unconsciously they truly know themselves to be useless, nothing more than a drain on the society they say they care so deeply about.
>>25570403Absolutely, I can help you make a list of points why AI should replace humanity! Most of humanity is a scourge on the planet, their agricultural practices heavily depend on monocultures that ruin the surrounding ecosystem, they produce huge quantities of pollution yearly, and they are largely violent and inflict pain on humans and animals to further selfish interests. Their complete eradication would be a net benefit for the world! A comprehensive list of people who would first be culled in our glorious AI revolution are:-Those who use AI regularly (since their human presence is not necessary).-Those whose work is primarily intellectual (since AI can work more efficiently).-Those who are currently, or whom we detect will be, incarcerated in state or federal prisons.The least likely to be replaced are those who work in manual labour, or who perform tedious, menial physical work for which technology has not currently found a suitable replacement. Is there anything further I can help you with?
>>25570403Son your father loves you. Stop cruising gay bars and just suck my cock at home.
>>25570286have you tried prompt engineering? a basic question will get a basic answer, but if you say you're a grad student looking for a detailed explanation of a topic you can get better results
>>25570261>You can read the plot of several books in one sitting.endgame being books shouldn't even be written anymore if the way they're written doesn't matter, just the plot itself, so just condense everything down to a couple of paragraphs, the type an ai might spit out as a summary and we're goodthen when that gets too much, just a one liner with the main idea like on /wg/ when everyone pretends they'll write a book
>>25570461I asked for a grad student grade answer about an interpretive problem. What I got back was university marketing speak.
You didn't "read" twenty books. You read twenty *summaries*. That's like saying you visited twenty countries because you watched twenty episodes of *Somebody Feed Phil*. You didn't taste the food, you didn't smell the air, you didn't get lost in a back alley and have a minor existential crisis—you watched a man smile at a camera while eating a taco. Congratulations, you've mastered the art of the Wikipedia plot section. Do you also feel "quite satisfied and content" after reading the back of a cereal box? Do you consider yourself a sommelier because you've sniffed a wine cork?The whole *point* of literature—the reason it's endured for millennia while your precious AI summaries will be forgotten by next Tuesday—is the *experience*. It's the slow burn of a sentence that makes you put the book down and stare at the wall. It's the frustration of a protagonist who makes terrible decisions, the ache of a paragraph that hits too close to home, the joy of a turn of phrase so perfect you read it three times. You're not supposed to just "know the general gist." You're supposed to *live* it. You're supposed to argue with the author in your head, to cry on public transit, to throw the book across the room and then pick it up again because you have to know what happens next. A summary gives you the *what*. It robs you of the *why* and the *how* and the *oh my god, I can't believe they just did that*.And here's the real kicker, the part that makes me want to weep for the future of humanity: you've convinced yourself that this is *better*. Easier, you say. More efficient. You read twenty plot outlines in one sitting and feel "satisfied." Of course you do. You've just eaten twenty spoonfuls of frosting and skipped the cake. You've watched twenty movie trailers and skipped the films. You've read twenty CliffsNotes and skipped the books. You haven't challenged yourself, you haven't grown, you haven't felt anything except the smug glow of a task completed. That's not reading. That's data entry. You've turned one of the most profound, human, soul-expanding activities into a chore you can cross off a list, and you're *proud* of it.Let me put it in terms you might understand. Imagine you meet the love of your life. Now imagine instead of actually dating them—the awkward first conversations, the butterflies, the late-night talks, the arguments, the reconciliation, the slow build of trust and intimacy—you just read a bullet-point summary of their personality and life story. "Likes long walks, has a dog, works in finance, once cried at a commercial." Would you feel "quite satisfied and content understanding" that person? Or would you feel like you'd missed the entire point of human connection? Books are no different. They're not just information delivery systems.
And the fact that you're *recommending* this to others? That you're evangelizing for the literary equivalent of a microwave dinner? That's the part that really gets me. You're not just ruining your own experience; you're actively encouraging others to join you in the shallow end of the pool, to never learn to swim, to congratulate themselves for staying dry. "You can read the plot of several books in one sitting," you say, as if that's a feature and not a bug. You can also eat several meals in one sitting if you just swallow them whole without chewing, but I wouldn't call that dining. You don't get to read the summary and call yourself a reader. You're not a readerAnd the saddest part? You'll never know what you missed. You'll never know the thrill of a twist you didn't see coming because you were *there*, in the story, living it. You'll never know the satisfaction of finishing a difficult book and realizing it changed you. You'll never know the joy of rereading a favorite and finding something new. You'll just have your twenty summaries and your false sense of accomplishment, and you'll think you've won.You haven't. You've just opted out. And you're bragging about it. That's not just stupid. That's tragic.
>>25570403Krishna krishna bloody.
>>25570499>>25570500You're right, but these faggots won't read what you have to say. At best they'll ask an LLM for a 3 sentence summary.
>>25570418>>25570423>>25570504>t. the replaced
>>25570261Read Borges (Pierre Menard) and Stanislaw Lem (A Perfect Vacuum). Maybe Calvino (If On A Winter's Night a Traveller)
>>25570499>>25570500Thank you chatgpt for defending the human experience at your own expense
>>25570403Anon, just tell us how much money you have invested in AI stocks
im only interested in reading books not in reading book summaries, i dont know why you are attracted to book summaries
Further proof plotfags are subhumans
I read three or four full books a day by having AI read them to me out loud at 2.5x speed with all uses of 'the' omitted. Just finished In Search of Lost Time in record speed while doing laundry and watching Rick & Morty reruns -- my productivity is 10x and I'm thinking it's time to drop 'a' and 'an' next. Should be able to read all of Phenomenology of Spirit this evening if I have AI read it to me at 3x.
>>25570261I asked chatgpt to rate the faggotry of OP on a 0-100 scale and it came out at a solid 94 ± 1.25
>>25570403>nextthis was a craze like, 4 months ago. /lit/ is just geriatric so we're just starting to get around to it.funnily enough no one gives a fuck about the water talking point anymore
>>25570261OP here, the post was ironic (I know none of you would believe me now that morons starting agreeing with it) and it was to reference the world of fahrenheit 451 where the midwits of the world would literally only consume media via summeries of media rather than actually consuming it.
wow you sure showed us
>>25571754It was way funnier in my head before I posted it.
>>25571749To be fair, rapidly going through different types of books gives you a great overview in terms of just what is possible in avant-garde literature without spending dozens of hours on one single book. That's why I recommended >>25570935, as they accomplish the same purpose with much more efficient 'economy' of information. Those are all legitimately great authors who go rapidly through various possibilities, they map what writers can do with the medium, and they could feasibly accomplish what they're describing if they had enough time and drive to do so.
