[timeagain]

Working for a company that has mixed paper/electronic documentation. I can’t overstate how useful it is to highlight, circle, and/or cross-out sections of a form. Also to see /what/ was crossed out to know the history of the document.

You might say, “well we can add these formatting features and make the form elements removable and…”. But if you know you know. Asking “normal people” to do all this in markup is an insta-fail. Most of us are caterers, not programmers.

[coding123]

AI can handle the mixed form... Perhaps now with LLMs we can just scan all the stuff with crossed out words and cicled conditions and have the ai make it searchable.

Then again we should always ask ourselves if a drug dealer would ever recommend someone stop doing drugs.

[ben_w]

LLMs certainly can cope with disordered notes scribbled into the metaphorical margins, and OCR can usually turn literal scribbles in literal margins into something approximating what was written, buuuuuuuuut the AI we currently have is just good enough to be dangerous if you tried using it this way.

On the other hand, the last 15 months have been "if you don't like the state of the art AI, wait a week", so I may be out of date with that assessment.