The Digest Outvotes the Thread

How an AI Summary Became a Street Committee's Whole Discussion

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement fits fourteen street committees with a nightly AI-generated digest of each street's residents group chat and tracks what the committees' own decisions trace back to across a 22-week deployment. Reliance on the digest alone rises steadily over the run, with the chat's hedges, sarcasm, and half-withdrawn objections the content most reliably absent once a committee stops checking the source thread.

@misc{slop_08k1xt,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
  title        = {The Digest Outvotes the Thread: How an AI Summary Became a Street Committee's Whole Discussion},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.08k1xt},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-piloting-an-ai-generated-08k1xt/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}