#summarizingcontent — Public Fediverse posts

Search Engine Land: YouTube test replaces video titles with AI summaries. Gross! “Google is testing AI-generated summaries in YouTube feeds, replacing video titles with auto-written synopses. Some YouTube users are seeing video titles replaced by AI-generated summaries in the Android app. Reports on Reddit showed title-less video cards with collapsible summary boxes instead.”

Yale University: AI Tools Like ChatGPT Make Learning Easier — and More Persuasive, Yale Study Finds. “With funding from ISPS, [Professor Daniel] Karell and his team set out to find if reading AI-written summaries of history help people learn better than reading human-written ones…. In a paper published in December in Social Science Computer Review, the researchers found that people who […]

Yale News: AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying. “Prior research has shown that content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that has been prompted to be persuasive can indeed shift people’s opinions. But this study provides evidence that the same is also true of content that is not intended to change minds, such as the summaries that popular chatbots […]

Search Engine Land: 44% of ChatGPT citations come from the first third of content: Study. “ChatGPT heavily favors the top of content when selecting citations, according to an analysis of 1.2 million AI answers and 18,012 verified citations by Kevin Indig, Growth Advisor.”

Bleeping Computer: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails. “Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.”