[bvm]

Sure. I worked at a company that produced tens of thousands of human written summaries of news data a year. This was costly and slow but our clients really valued them. Back in 2019 we fine tuned an LLM to help, we put a lot of effort into creating a human-in-the-loop experience, highlighting parts of speech that were commonly hallucinated and ensuring that we were allowing humans to focus on things that humans are good at.

We also released some of the data as a free dataset with a commercial option for all of it. This was more successful than I thought it would be and was hoovered up by the kind of people that buy these datasets.

It will have been surpassed by recent developments now but it was an incredibly enjoyable project.

[rmbyrro]

What kind of clients value news summaries that much?

[bvm]

large corporates, financial services. Use cases were needle-in-a-haystack style searching, internal comms, following research topics over time, external newsletters, that kinda stuff. It wasn't particularly high margin but it was a fun business.

[mothcamp]

I imagine it's a company similar to Bulletin Intelligence. Would you be open to discussing your experiences in this industry?

[bvm]

yeh sure! how'd you like to do so?

[mothcamp]

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