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I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

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Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

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How do you get ChatGPT to read the book?

GPT-4 turbo has a context window of 128k tokens, so you can divide every book into a few chunks for initial summarization, then merge the results for the final summary!

Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

#4

How do you get ChatGPT to read the book?

GPT-4 turbo has a context window of 128k tokens, so you can divide every book into a few chunks for initial summarization, then merge the results for the final summary!

Wow. Sounds like it’ll get expensive quick with all the api calls. I hope you make your money back via Amazon.

Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

#5

How do you get ChatGPT to read the book?

GPT-4 turbo has a context window of 128k tokens, so you can divide every book into a few chunks for initial summarization, then merge the results for the final summary!

I assume you have pdfs. How do you split them up?

Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

#7

I definitely thought you meant that you asked it to write 5 bullet points that covered/summarized 14,501 books haha. Would love to see the output from that prompt.

It would be hilarious if one of the bullets were “42”.

Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

#8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT-4 turbo has a context window of 128k tokens, so you can divide every book into a few chunks for initial summarization, then merge the results for the final summary!

I assume you have pdfs. How do you split them up?

pdftotext is a Linux utility to extract text from PDF files. Then you can easily cut the text file into pieces. For best summarization, it's best that the pieces overlap a bit, so that important paragraphs that lie on the boundaries are not lost.

Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result

#9

How do you get ChatGPT to read the book?

For any book popular enough to have be put into GPT training data, you can get a summary without uploading it. The idea that these big, corporate models (their "intellectual property" if you will) have been trained on data they downloaded from ebook pirating sites... it's a real head shaker.

https://aicopyright.substack.com/p/has-your-book-been-used-t...

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