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

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I expected the books to be public domain, but no, it's just random (?) books from many different publishers. I hope you have a good legal team...

I believe the content falls under Fair Use. More details: https://docs.sobrief.com/en/articles/9905825-is-sobrief-infr...

Laundering a pirated book collection through OpenAI is a hell of a business model. Good luck!

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

#22

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I believe the content falls under Fair Use. More details: https://docs.sobrief.com/en/articles/9905825-is-sobrief-infr...

Laundering a pirated book collection through OpenAI is a hell of a business model. Good luck!

isn't that basically Blinkist

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

#23

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I believe the content falls under Fair Use. More details: https://docs.sobrief.com/en/articles/9905825-is-sobrief-infr...

Laundering a pirated book collection through OpenAI is a hell of a business model. Good luck!

Thank you for your kind feedback!

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

#27

I expected the books to be public domain, but no, it's just random (?) books from many different publishers. I hope you have a good legal team...

Did you read the title or site? It says they're summaries which are definitely fair use.

Now whether they're interesting or not is another question.....

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

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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?

> 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”. No, we generate summaries on the fly, too. Why would you generate all the summaries in advance when you can summarize real-time when a user clicks on it? > What is with sloppybros and thinking quantity is more desirable than quality…

> Why would you generate all the summaries in advance when you can summarize real-time when a user clicks on it?

Well the most obvious reason is that the summary page would load faster. I clicked on a book summary and it took much longer to render than even a bloated web app usually takes.

73k summaries isn't that many. If your site gets any traction most of those summaries will be hit repeatedly and will have to generate anyway. Creating the summaries in advance would also allow you to test and verify the output, if you're interested in that.

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

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post #18

Thanks, I hate it and this is exactly the kind of thing I fear is ruining the internet.

How would this ruin the internet?

It’s the very definition of autogenerated sometimes correct sometimes full of shit with no way to tell spam that isn’t even being honest with users that it’s AI nonsense.

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

#30
This is why no one buys books. Books are too long, too broad, the interface of books is the same since 868 CE and 90% of the text is just filler. Kindle brought some innovation into this space, but it's UI and support tools are still ridiculously cro magnon like.

The invisible hand that somehow forces authors to bloat their 3 paragraph gist into 200 pages kills the whole industry. I don't care if a book is only 15 pages long and costs $10, just leave the filler out or separate it with a blank page, then could come the 200 page long bs.

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