This article boils down to “man enables feature, is slightly surprised when feature functions.”
Ars is usually better than this. Disappointing
For some reason the author is trying to equate it to an “AI-Mediated breakup” which…doesn’t make sense, a summary of something is not “mediating”
Mediating would be like having the AI write and deliver a breakup text, simply summarizing it isn’t
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To be fair the ‘dystopian’ quote is from the guy that got broken up with, not ARS’ article writer.
I don’t think that’s the part they took issue with.
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.
It’s summarized an any “stack” of notifications. So a bunch of messages from the same group chat, or a single app sending you a bunch of notifications, etc.
I’ve only been trying it for like 48 hours, but so far I’m impressed considering this is a local LLM running on my phone.
I think the intended use case is summarising a series of messages, not just one
“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.”
If the single word “dystopian” is how the editors decided to summarize that description, I’m not sure they’re doing any better than the AI.
Dystopia is when optional feature is enabled
“About a week later right out of the blue she sends me a John Deere letter… Yeah I called her. She gave me a bunch of crap about not listening to her enough. I dunno. I wasn’t really paying attention.”
That John Denver’s full of shit man
So the complaint here is that Apple’s AI summary… Accurately and succinctly summarised his messages, as he requested?
“She found the Tinder messages; you’re cooked bro”
