Corporate editors now insist on adding AI generated "executive summaries" and "FAQ"s to blog posts, regurgitating the very document they accompany.

[jschauma@mstdn.social]

Corporate editors now insist on adding AI generated "executive summaries" and "FAQ"s to blog posts, regurgitating the very document they accompany. This is purportedly for SEO (🤮), basically encouraging a "why bother reading the thing" mindset.

Still believing that actual humans are capable of actually reading a text with more than 100 words, I'm rather irritated by that.

[wendynather@infosec.exchange]

@jschauma It’s redundant. and not even in a good way. “This is a blog post about cookies.” I KNOW, I GOT THAT FROM THE TITLE.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@jschauma

this brings back flashbacks of when i was in the service and at the pentagon. a senior NCO told me that every time i had to write up something for a commissioned officer about something technical, the way to get approval was:

- enough bulk in the overall request to look "substantial" (i.e. quality by the pound)
- a cover sheet with a sort paragraph summarizing the mound of paper
- a simple yes/no permission question following the paragraph and checkbox for that yes/no

it was depressing how often the officer would indeed just heft the report, read the summary and check yes/no without ever reading the full document. it was also quite effective in usually getting us what we were asking for...