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Captions existed before YouTube added automatic captions to everything. Should they not have done that? After all they're pretty bad sometimes
Cliff notes will still be around, and wiki summaries (overwhelmingly written by college educated white men) will still be around.
When I think about JK Rowling and/or Harry Potter, which admittedly I rarely do, I think of Ursula Le Guin calling the Harry Potter series “stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited”
There's an old story about a crowd gathering to watch the first steam shovel dig up a road.
All impressed until someone says, "that's taking the jobs of dozens of men with pick axes"
Another replies "or thousands of men with toothpicks"
Protecting dumb jobs doesn't help wealth distribution
Everyone deserves fulfilling work and a good standard of living
That's a political issue that doesn't get nearly enough attention, but the solution is not to artificially protect jobs that can be done by machines
And occasionally a well simplified version will find a market. But for the other million books published every year we now have a free alternative. Not sure how that's a bad thing.
LLMs are excellent at producing summaries. They're a useful tool
This is like automated captions, or translations. Not as good as hand made, but infinitely cheaper, and so infinitely more available. (And available *in parallel* with the original)
But if you want to donate your time to producing bespoke simplifications of classics nobody is stopping you
