• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    So the complaint here is that Apple’s AI summary… Accurately and succinctly summarised his messages, as he requested?

  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    We reached out to Spreen directly via email and he delivered his own summary of his girlfriend’s messages. “It was something along the lines of i can’t believe you just did that, we’re done, i want my stuff. we had an argument in a bar and I got up and left, then she sent the text,” he wrote.

    How did he feel about getting the news via AI summary? “I do feel like it added a level of distance to it that wasn’t a bad thing,” he told Ars Technica. “Maybe a bit like a personal assistant who stays professional and has your back even in the most awful situations, but yeah, more than anything it felt unreal and dystopian.”

    This really is just more funny than anything else to me. Sucks it was on his birthday, though.

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      1 month ago

      “we had an argument in a bar and I got up and left, then she sent the text,”

      If you abandon your girl in a bar, you should absolutely expect to lose her, birthday or not. She is under no obligation at that point to consider his feelings about his special day.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Is an AI summary of a text message really something you need? I’d have thought a typical text would be short enough to not require it.

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      1 month ago

      I have a boss who sends the most rambly incoherent emails I’ve ever encountered from anyone. Yet when he sends a text (It’s really WhatsApp but same difference) it’s basically four words.

      People do not really like typing on phones so they tend not to leave long messages