{"id":246005,"date":"2025-07-07T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:13:11","slug":"x-user-claims-you-can-read-100-books-a-day-with-ai-but-the-internet-isnt-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246005\/","title":{"rendered":"X user claims you can read 100+ books a day with AI\u2014 but the internet isn\u2019t convinced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"X Recently, Packy McCormick \u2014 the writer behind the Not Boring newsletter, posted a tweet that felt both hilarious and painfully accurate. With biting sarcasm, he quipped a tip for his users \u201cyou can basically read> 100 books per day by asking ChatGPT to summarize them for you.\u201d Attached was a screenshot where the AI neatly distilled Anna Karenina into a tidy, 300-word explanation \u2014 plotlines, themes, and all.And if that didn\u2019t make a statement enough, Packy in his follow-up tweet, Packy asked ChatGPT to summarize The Lost Art of Reading \u2014 a book ironically warning about our shrinking attention spans and the slow erosion of deep, meaningful engagement with text. The AI obliged, and explained that David L. Ulin explains through his work, that \u201cin this fast paced, hyper-connected world, we\u2019re losing the ability\u2013 and patience\u2013 to sit with a book and engage deeply. \"annaThe irony wasn\u2019t lost on anyone. A tool partly responsible for this very erosion was now calmly explaining its consequences \u2014 as if it hadn\u2019t just accelerated the trend. It was meta, brutal, and hilarious all at once. And netizens were quick to catch on to that. One user wrote, \u201cYou\u2019re missing the entire point of reading. Books aren\u2019t just about the narrative. They\u2019re about word useage(sic), language. They\u2019re about culture – they give you quotes, insight to historical context and worldview. You cannot get any of that with a child\u2019s summary of what was an iconic book that served to change our world when it was released.\u201dAnother said, \u201cYou read books for more than one thing. The point of reading a book like Anna Karenina is the experience of reading Anna Karenina. How did the love happen? How did the betrayal happen? What was the clash between desire and expectation? All lost in these crass cliff notes.\u201d\"Books\"A third user puts her understanding quite eloquently. She wrote, \u201cPro tip: you can basically eat whatever you want per day by asking chatgpt the recipe of it.\u201d But beneath the humor lies a real, more unsettling truth. In a world that\u2019s constantly speeding up, where information is bite-sized and everything scrolls past in seconds, reading remains one of the last few acts that demands our full attention.It slows us down. It offers depth. And maybe most importantly, it gives us companionship \u2014 a quiet conversation with a voice that\u2019s not shouting over the noise. In a fast, distracted, and often lonely world, reading might just be the most human thing left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, Packy McCormick \u2014 the writer behind the Not Boring newsletter, posted a tweet that felt both hilarious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[95508,3444,95507,77,23996,95505,95506,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-246005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-anna-karenina-summary","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-chatgpt-summary","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-importance-of-reading","13":"tag-reading-books-with-ai","14":"tag-the-lost-art-of-reading","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114813548338205123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}