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I liked the original autotldr bot on Reddit. The one here though seems to be producing a large summary instead of just TL;DR.
Here's an example: https://lemmings.world/comment/920986
This comment takes up most of the screen space on my mobile device. I don't consider this to be a TL;DR. At this rate, I'd opt to just read the article in question instead.
The other problem is that lengthy TL;DRs like this obstruct comments, making it annoying to scroll past for those of who are on mobile devices. I could block the bot of course, but I don't want to - I do want a legit TL;DR, not a reworded article.
Here's my attempt at generating a TL;DR of the mentioned article, using ChatGPT:
IMO, this is what a TL;DR should look like - a single paragraph and under 150 words.
To be fair, the TL;DR would be a lot shorter if the breaks between sentences were removed. I personally draw the line at around 200 words for a summary, so the 183 words in the summary is a bit long but still a reasonable TL;DR for an article.
Since Lemmy implements spoiler tags, I think wrapping the summary in a spoiler tag would be a way to solve the length problem.
I love the idea of wrapping the summary in a spoiler tag! I think that would be a great idea to be implemented for bots like that and would solve a lot of this. That's a great idea you've had and I thank you for sharing it!
This makes sense and I agree.
Note - I'm not a beehaw user
I kinda prefer this though, IMO condensing an article down into a one or a few sentences could make it difficult to facilitate a "healthy" discussion
A really miniscule TL;DR seems more likely for a bunch of assumptions to be made based on that alone, and increase the likelihood of users calling each other out for not actually reading the article.
Oh ☹️ I decreased the font size for comments on my mobile so there was a higher content density but that might not work for you