I think there is big value in something that is on the side of the user, in particular in processing user-hostile material. Here are some concrete use cases:
* Buying a sofa. You want to filter for sofas of a specific size, with certain features, marketing sites want to feed you a bunch of marketing slop for each sofa before giving you the details . This generalises to many domains.
* You have a few friends who are still stuck on Facebook, you want to be notified if they post anything and avoid other rubbish
* The local neighborhood is stuck organising in a Facebook group or even worse, nextdoor. You want to see any new posts except for those couple of guys who are always posting the same thing.
* A government consultation website has been put up, but as a hurdle the consultation document has been combinatorially expanded to 763 pages by bureaucratic authoring techniques. You want to undo the combinatorial expansion do you can identify things you actually care about.
> Buying a sofa. You want to filter for sofas of a specific size, with certain features
This jumped out to me as well. Even sites like Amazon lack per-item-cost sorting, which can be really helpful when buying in bulk. Historically we've seen people use scraping and data science to build sites like https://diskprices.com/; without using LLMs. If LLMs are useful for those types of tasks, perhaps we'll see a surge in similar sites instead of end users doing prompt engineering in their browser.
> You want to see any new posts except for those couple of guys who are always posting the same thing.
It looks like nextdoor supports blocking users, although other sites may not.
Yeah definitely. Also a problem when buying by weight or length. Length will be especially challenging for an LLM, as it needs to pick the right dimension.
* Buying a sofa. You want to filter for sofas of a specific size, with certain features, marketing sites want to feed you a bunch of marketing slop for each sofa before giving you the details . This generalises to many domains.
* You have a few friends who are still stuck on Facebook, you want to be notified if they post anything and avoid other rubbish
* The local neighborhood is stuck organising in a Facebook group or even worse, nextdoor. You want to see any new posts except for those couple of guys who are always posting the same thing.
* A government consultation website has been put up, but as a hurdle the consultation document has been combinatorially expanded to 763 pages by bureaucratic authoring techniques. You want to undo the combinatorial expansion do you can identify things you actually care about.