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Good bot! I didn't know I missed having a summary until now
Having one in link posts really should be mandatory in the rules for most communities
I appear to be in the small minority, but I do not think we should be relying on an AI to summarize stories for us because the AI doesn't actually know what are important details.
On the other hand, having some people who read a summary that skips some important parts when they otherwise wouldn’t have read the article at all, might be worth the trade off it brings of people who would have read the article now reading an incomplete summary. The net amount of people who go into the comments more informed about the topic past whatever is in the headline would be decently higher, and personally I see that as one of the best ways to increase the quality of discussion overall.
Author of the bot here, so obviously biased, but the bot so far is doing really great at picking the important parts. And sure, it doesn't know, but it's really good at guessing and I dare say better than many actual people would be at picking 6 sentences to summarize the article.