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Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

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Post by tyingq »

Looked at a few products I'm familiar with, and it appears you're doing pretty damn well at summarizing the high and low points for them. Nice work, bookmarked. It's pretty rare to find an affiliate model type site that actually adds value.

Edit: You'll want to watch out for people scraping your work and hawking it as their own though. I did something kinda similar by taking poor OEM images and cleaning them up, adding some rotation/depth, improving product descriptions, specifications by hand, etc. Scraped and copied by competitors pretty soon thereafter. Then a whack-a-mole DMCA game of getting rid of the ones that didn't bother to even change the copy.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#32

Post by hubraumhugo »

tyingq wrote: post #31

Looked at a few products I'm familiar with, and it appears you're doing pretty damn well at summarizing the high and low points for them. Nice work, bookmarked. It's pretty rare to find an affiliate model type site that actually adds value. Edit: You'll want to watch out for people scraping your work and hawking it as their own though. I did something kinda similar by taking poor OEM images and cleaning them up, addi…

Thanks for the feedback :) Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by then the competitive advantage is hopefully big enough.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#33

Post by hubraumhugo »

nutanc wrote: post #27

Multiple things to think about here: 1. For summarizing, in my experience GPT-3 still has some ways to go. It gets it right a lot of the times, but when it misses, it misses bad. 2. Assuming that after scraping we feed all the scrapped data as a prompt from which GPT-3 generates bullet points, that will be a very big prompt. Since prompts are also counted as tokens, it might end up costing 10cents minimum to generate…

1. Can confirm. I'm currently manually checking every summary before pushing it to production. And there were some really bad ones.

2. You are right, the prompts can become quite big which increases the costs.

3. Let's see where it goes once it gets bigger :)

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#34

Post by hubraumhugo »

_adamb wrote: post #20

Is anyone selling (or open sourcing) a solution like this? I would love to feed our company's reviews into a program that could generate a bulleted list like this to summarize what our customers are saying.

That's acutally what I plan to do - offering this as a B2B solution where companies can summarize reviews of their own website/products. Feel free to contact me to talk about this.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#35

Post by hubraumhugo »

ibejoeb wrote: post #19

Anyone have any insight into elapse time on the waiting list for GPT-3 access?

I just submitted the official request form on https://openai.com/ and two days later I got access :) Not sure whether they are checking every submission and use-case manually or not.

My guess is that they are opening it up a bit more as the models and the API are becoming more mature. Their slack channel currently has over 20k people in it.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#36

Post by hubraumhugo »

fudged71 wrote: post #13

This is fantastic. Could you please provide alternative shopping links? Amazon.com links don’t resolve for Amazon.ca customers

The goal is to link directly to the manufacturer if possible. But right now the affiliate links from Amazon give me a few $ per month to cover the infrastructure costs.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#37

Post by bdonlan »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #32
tyingq wrote: post #31

Looked at a few products I'm familiar with, and it appears you're doing pretty damn well at summarizing the high and low points for them. Nice work, bookmarked. It's pretty rare to find an affiliate model type site that actually adds value. Edit: You'll want to watch out for people scraping your work and hawking it as their own though. I did something kinda similar by taking poor OEM images and cleaning them up, addi…

Thanks for the feedback :) Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by then the competitive advantage is hopefully big enough.

The problem with trying to use the DMCA for this is that, provably, no human creativity is involved, and so it's likely that the output of this is uncopyrightable.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#38

Post by tyingq »

bdonlan wrote: post #37
hubraumhugo wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback :) Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by then the competitive advantage is hopefully big enough.

The problem with trying to use the DMCA for this is that, provably, no human creativity is involved, and so it's likely that the output of this is uncopyrightable.

It tends to work in practice anyway. Competitors that stoop that low aren't likely to actually contest it. I understand there's a legal liability there, but again, if you research who is doing it, the risk can be very low. And if you focus just on google SERPS, they often don't notice their pages got yanked from the index.

Re: Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

#39

Post by tyingq »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #32
tyingq wrote: post #31

Looked at a few products I'm familiar with, and it appears you're doing pretty damn well at summarizing the high and low points for them. Nice work, bookmarked. It's pretty rare to find an affiliate model type site that actually adds value. Edit: You'll want to watch out for people scraping your work and hawking it as their own though. I did something kinda similar by taking poor OEM images and cleaning them up, addi…

Thanks for the feedback :) Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by then the competitive advantage is hopefully big enough.

You can, of course, play tricks with javascript to thwart the scrapers, or serve them deliberately bad data, block ip ranges, etc. Depends on how tenacious they are, it's a war of escalation.
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