What's the legality of this? Redistributing content for paid books for sale? Edit: can this data be sold?
Why, is it quoting substantial portions from the books? Copyright covers expression, not information.
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#12You can see some of the usual GPT consistency problems. I chose Alan Moore's Writing for Comics and asked it how I should start best when writing a comic. It suggested first thinking up characters and a world, then designing the visuals, then thinking up a story. I found that order somewhat odd, so I asked again if I should start with the story or the visuals - and suddenly it was very sure that I should start with t…
Yea I'm not satisfied with the response quality of that one either. I added it because I like Moore's writing and thought it would be a fun addition. But, the book is so short that there's not enough source material to draw on sometimes. So it starts to hallucinate answers.
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#13How does this work? I thought there was some kind of limit in the size of the prompt and the API calls.
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#14What's the legality of this? Redistributing content for paid books for sale? Edit: can this data be sold?
Is it redistributing content? I don't believe that to be the case.
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#15How are you getting the book text into gpt3?
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#16I wonder why the books are all non-fiction. I could imagine it would be entertaining to chat with large works of fiction.
Books that operate in a narrative/temporal style are hard to manage, because statements of fact are mutative.
Consider the story:
"Justin is hungry. Justin eats dinner. Justin is not hungry."
You ask the chatbot "Is Justin hungry?". There is a temporal aspect to this question that is hard for simple systems that are just embedding facts into a vector DB (or similar techniques) to reconcile.
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#17Books are documents. A generalized document bot might be useful for bot creation, for many use cases that are conversationally focused on data that is "frozen", like a book.
Conversely, an analytics bot that ingests and can converse about analytical information related to a business is also useful for data in motion. This is more based on time series data and running analytical queries based on conversational language.
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#18I love this. How does it work copyright-wise?
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#19Are there ways to make the output quote any relevant sentences from book? I just want to verify whether there is hallucination.
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#20This is one application of AI that I absolutely like. Imagine in future the AI will be able to ingest any video, blog, books, manuals, license and whole lot of other things and we will just be able to ask questions to it or get a summary from it. I wonder what will happen to actual content then. Currently YouTube is showing info about most watched section of the clips. It saves so much time! Now imagine that happenin…
Usually I find "most watched" ends up just being the most showy part of a clip, but I'm usually wanting the most informational stuff which isn't the same. E.g. I'm a rock climber and watch videos on technique and safety, but most watched is climbing a route with some pop song in the background. Useless.