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by tunesmith 1401 days ago
I think this is an amazing tool and implementation, particularly if it is geared toward helping the author understand the issue efficiently.

I would recommend a better voice-over for the video, it is by far the limiting factor of the presentation.

Finally, I would recommend adding more plagiarism controls to the tool. People are going to be so tempted to just paste in what the AI summarizes without understanding or even reading it in depth.

2 comments

My first thought here was "tools like this could be a really cool to help improve the quality of my student's papers." My immediate second thought was "this trend in tooling is going to lead to tons of AI churned summary copypasta in all of the future paper's I read."
that's actually one of my biggest concerns since I do not yet have a way to hard-prevent them from just copying and pasting summaries. I'll have to do more research to figure this out, but it's definitely on top of my mind
I used my iphone for recording, so that's probably why. I agree to your second point. I added caution in the info tooltip but I have yet to figure out an active way to prevent users from just copying and pasting the content.