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An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook

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Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook

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This made me think of the Norwegian news site that required readers to take a quiz before commenting: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne... Combining these two ideas could be really neat -- I wonder if it could even be sold as a service a la disqus.

Hah, I was going to post the same thing. Perhaps it is steam-engine-time for this idea.

Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook

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Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.

Copyright law apples, not the first page legal looking text. They can make any claims they want to on the first page, but that has no legal standing in court. This quiz almost undoubtedly fall under fair use.

Of course if you need legal advice you need to consult a lawyer.

Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook

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This made me think of the Norwegian news site that required readers to take a quiz before commenting: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne... Combining these two ideas could be really neat -- I wonder if it could even be sold as a service a la disqus.

Great idea! I am very guilty of commenting here without reading the article. Can we try this here?

Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook

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post #3

Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.

I don't think it's copying verbatim, it might be caching it for a short while but not saving it (based on what I'm reading about the technology). So the more interesting question here: is a computer legally allowed to generate an original interpretation of text on a page?

The user of the app is still copying the text verbatim and transferring it to the server, which is distributing.

Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook

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This made me think of the Norwegian news site that required readers to take a quiz before commenting: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne... Combining these two ideas could be really neat -- I wonder if it could even be sold as a service a la disqus.

The idea would combine nicely with voting in the elections, too - given a casted vote has more impact than leaving a comment under a news article ;)
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