This is a Google Slides presentation from the Collaborative Library project to a Creative Commons Open Education Platform meeting two weeks ago (falling on Canada Day, so I wasn't there). The idea here is that volunteers write "easy-to-understand summaries of research papers in various formats". I applaud the intent, though I really can't see this not being done by AI in the near future. As someone who has written thousands of short summaries of academic papers, I can say quite confidently that the human labour required to keep up with all the papers that are published would be enormous. And there's no real reason to have a human write the summary unless it's going to be infused with a good deal of context and opinion, the way my posts are. But that's something that works if an individual or small group does it, not the whole community at large.
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