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How do you know if an article is good or not? You have to waste your time reading at least some of it. I've found it useful to have ChatGPT generate a summary, then if the summary sounds interesting, then I read it.

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There are heuristics developed over time for determining if an article is worth it. Far harder to tell whether ChatGPT is just making things up (it does all the time).

Pretty easy. Is the headline/topic interesting? Read the introduction. That's interesting? Read the next paragraph. Losing interest? Skim a few para's, pick out interesting headings, illustrations or keywords or skip to the end and see what the conclusion is.

This is active reading, not some robo-moron digesting an article, shitting it out and then spoon-feeding the contents of the toilet-bowl back to you.

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