@cloudskater You bring up another pain point in the AI mess we're in and that's the definition of AI. I don't consider traditional machine learning itself to be harmful. However, generative AI and agentic AI systems are inherently terrible, or at least extremely inefficient, for anything besides some lulz. And wealth extraction, of course.

Summarization of papers I think is something that can be done responsibly. In fact, I like what @nopatienceChristoffer S. has done with summarizing posts for an RSS feed. It's not for you to read the summary instead of the original post, but so you can decide if you want to read the post.

Honestly, it's tough to avoid all AI systems these days, especially if you work in tech. I wouldn't stress about that part. If you focus on the accuracy, consistency, and efficiency of a system, you should naturally weed out most AI garbage. Or at least that's been my experience so far.