evidence EV-AI-COMM-2026-3D6F

Greater abstractive summarization trades against factuality

Identifier: EV-AI-COMM-2026-3D6F
Research Area: ai-mediated-communication
Status: draft
Version: 0.1
Confidence: 0.9
Priority: medium
Tags: summarization, factuality, abstraction
Updated: 2026-07-22
Source: research/evidence/EV-AI-COMM-2026-3D6F--summary-factuality-tradeoff.md

Evidence Record

Human judgments across datasets with 10,200 and 4,200 summaries support a tradeoff between abstraction and factuality. Compression can create precisely the confident omissions and reinterpretations a handoff must prevent.