AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)

There were literally people using this exact expression no later than 2024, but he gives us a cite from this month.

If AI;DR catches on, I bet it will be transformed the way tl;dr was.

Originally, tl;dr was a 4channism saying, "you wrote too much, I'm not reading it, good luck with that or sorry that happened, I don't care".

Now, "tl;dr" almost universally means, "here is a summary" or "long story short".

I kind of miss the original meaning of tl;dr 'cause it was useful snark. If "ai;dr" ever catches on, I expect it will lose its snark value quickly.

Perhaps amusingly given half the nature of complaint about LLM output (that it is pure expansion and that one might prefer to just be shown the prompt), the article body adds nothing meaningful to the title. If you live in the society, you can infer the rest.

I find this interesting at the same time. Kind of funny. I'm not a big fan of slack and I often find that people who use it too much do not communicate well. Call me old fashioned. I prefer to talk to someone on the phone. It's so much faster than stupid piece of shit slack. I would also add scdr /communication didn't read it!

A related phenomenon is people who didn't read an article, push it through AI, and then react to the AI generated summary. I have stopped sending articles to certain friends because I know only the AI will read it. (Or, perhaps that's what they wanted me to stop doing in the first place, since "nobody reads anymore"(tm).)

ss;dr (substack; didn't read)