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Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

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Post by tylertaewook » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 9:01 AM UTC

csw-001 wrote: post #35

tunesmith wrote: post #17

I think this is an amazing tool and implementation, particularly if it is geared toward helping the author understand the issue efficiently. I would recommend a better voice-over for the video, it is by far the limiting factor of the presentation. Finally, I would recommend adding more plagiarism controls to the tool. People are going to be so tempted to just paste in what the AI summarizes without understanding or e…

My first thought here was "tools like this could be a really cool to help improve the quality of my student's papers." My immediate second thought was "this trend in tooling is going to lead to tons of AI churned summary copypasta in all of the future paper's I read."

that's actually one of my biggest concerns since I do not yet have a way to hard-prevent them from just copying and pasting summaries. I'll have to do more research to figure this out, but it's definitely on top of my mind

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

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Post by tylertaewook » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 9:02 AM UTC

dna_polymerase wrote: post #41

I’m beginning to hate the same Tailwind UI on every SaaS website. Especially since people are too lazy to even change the main color.

This is my first web project so I'm still learning css. TailwindUI just seemed like the shortcut to me, but I feel what you're saying. I do see them a lot too

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

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Post by tylertaewook » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 9:06 AM UTC

stephc_int13 wrote: post #11

I like the idea, but having to log in with Google made me pause, and then I closed the page. I am OK to register, even if I think that a quick demo should be possible without this step. But I won't register with Google or Facebook or anything except an email.

I just chose google since I thought it was easiest way for someone to sign in without having to verify email, re-enter password, etc.

However, I never thought about the privacy concerns many people have regarding google signins. Thank you for the insight! I will definitely consider a workaround to this.

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

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Post by tylertaewook » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 9:14 AM UTC

yessirwhatever wrote: post #18

- No need to sign up to try it - I will never sign up with my Google account

1) One of GPT-3 usage guideline was not to make the app available for public without an account. I am required to send the userID for every GPT request by their guidelines, so I had to force-signin for now. I am considering to make a guest_mode in the near future tho.

2) Seeing the trend here, I'll make a email signup asap