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Re: Show HN: 73,530 free book summaries in 40 languages (with paid audio)

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OP here—happy to answer any questions! We’ve been working really hard since writing the first line of code 4 months ago.

4 months, 73k summaries, 0 mentions of AI on the website/in the FAQ. How are you doing it?

we used to mention AI in the title, but we removed it. we did list it on a bunch of ai directories like future pedia which does say we use ai

EDIT: just added a help article saying that we use ai

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OP here—happy to answer any questions! We’ve been working really hard since writing the first line of code 4 months ago.

Which LLM is used for the book summaries and which TTS for the audio?

llm: prefer not to answer tts: open ai

Re: Show HN: 73,530 free book summaries in 40 languages (with paid audio)

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4 months, 73k summaries, 0 mentions of AI on the website/in the FAQ. How are you doing it?

we used to mention AI in the title, but we removed it. we did list it on a bunch of ai directories like future pedia which does say we use ai EDIT: just added a help article saying that we use ai

So, AI.

Meaning you “generated” 73k “summaries” of which you are wholly unable to verify the content of because it would require you to have read the books and listened to/read the “summaries”.

What is with sloppybros and thinking quantity is more desirable than quality?

What motivated you to “remove” this fact from your website? Legitimate criticism?

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OP here—happy to answer any questions! We’ve been working really hard since writing the first line of code 4 months ago.

4 months, 73k summaries, 0 mentions of AI on the website/in the FAQ. How are you doing it?

It's 2024, it's not worth the time it takes to stop and wonder if it's LLM shovelware. It always is.

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4 months, 73k summaries, 0 mentions of AI on the website/in the FAQ. How are you doing it?

It's 2024, it's not worth the time it takes to stop and wonder if it's LLM shovelware. It always is.

true

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OP here—happy to answer any questions! We’ve been working really hard since writing the first line of code 4 months ago.

As others already clarified that it is using an LLM do you allow users to report issues with summaries? I would think this might be important.
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