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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] Barometer3689@feddit.nl 1 points 6 hours ago

To be fair, my father tends to make messages quite incomprehensible by adding irrelevant information all over the place. Sometimes going on for multiple screens while it could easily have been a 2-3 sentence message.

Sadly I think AI would even be worse at picking up what information is important from that. But I understand why people want it.

As for very active groupchats, I am not gonna read +25 messages a day, but being able to glance the gist of it would be awesome.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world -4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Ahh, intellect of the average American on display. So... -óóóh, is that a Donut?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

People in the US don't use WhatsApp, for the most part.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Why are you making fun of topological toroidal surfaces mr smarty pants

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 hours ago

I have one specifically that is mostly bursts of 2 or 3 hours of chat between whoever is online in the group and with some worthwhile coordination messages mixed in at random. I don't want to read 80 messages about mortgage rates and VTI stocks to find a couple of lines I'm actually interested in about kid plans for the evening or something I'd actually care to talk about.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -2 points 8 hours ago

It does make sense in big groups with tons of irrelevant discussion but also few messages you actually need to read.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago

"Caden, it looks like Airlynn just said you're a hopeless loser, and she's been banging your personal trainer Chad. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CEOs are SO INTELLIGENT! I would NEVER have Thought to invest BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on Chatbots and Summarizers which ALREADY existed!

[–] Alexander@sub.community 8 points 1 day ago

Tinder needs this function right now!

[–] Affidavit@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't use WhatsApp, but this immediately made me think of my dad who doesn't use any punctuation and frequently skips and misspells words. His messages are often very difficult to interpret, through no fault of his own (dyslexia).

Having an LLM do this for me would help both him and me.

He won't feel self conscious when I send a, "What you talkin' about Willis?" message, and I won't have to waste a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what he was trying to say.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If he’s not communicating in an explicit and clear way the AI can’t help you magically gain context. It will happily make up bullshit that sounds plausible though.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 14 points 21 hours ago

What makes you think the llm will be able to decipher something that already doesn't make sense