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I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result
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#32I made a bot Xwitter account to AI-summarize book reviews (scraped from GoodReads) https://twitter.com/BookReviewAi I find the results very interesting. Like this "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" one. https://twitter.com/BookReviewAi/status/1758162004529885573
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#33It looks like a lot of these are self-help or other fluffy books. It's funny because whenever I read these books I feel like someone just took a bunch of bullet points and then added anecdotes and fluff to make it fill a book. Herd you're reversing the process.
From the other extreme, I had recently asked GPT to do something similar with the text of Botchan (a famous literary work in Japan).
The bullet points it gave were were somewhat accurate at points, although I would say that the timeline and relationships wrong at some points. His childhood caretaker became a "woman he had a relationship with" later on, which was a complete mischaracterization. I think the regular version, sans the book text, might be more accurate (as it is probably based on Wikipedia / etc..)
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#35Ok, I'm getting it now. AI spam is really becoming a problem. I think the page should be much more upfront about the content being AI generated summaries.
Yeah, HN readers know it's AI generated, others do not because it doesn't say so anywhere on the page
Re: I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result
#36Now do Gemini 1.5, which can actually fit the entire book into the context length.
Yeah. I'd prefer to see that instead.
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#37I 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.
Same here! Love the idea behind this, but of course the big question is was one able to legally provide the content of 14,501 books to ChatGPT? Or there some database that has the content of all such books, and one can license there use?
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#38This is a great idea! I'd love to see 3 levels of summary: 1) 5-bullet summary, 2) 5-paragraph summary and 3) 5-page summary so I can keep digging deeper if I'm interested.
Not sure if any of this goes against copyright law, though...
EDIT: I wonder what would be the outcome of summarize all 1500 books together in 5 bullet points (like a single summary for all books)
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#39How 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...
If these were scrappy start-ups looking to survive one can sort-of understand why they might bend the rules about copyright to train their models.
But we're talking about behemoth companies here, one of which deigns to make a pitch worth 7 Trillion dollars (10% of global GDP).
So... they're trying to rake in investment at levels that are unheard of in human history. Surpassing Apollo, the Manhattan project, the great pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, and anything else one might think of.
And they're not paying for the books ???
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too! I was really looking forward to seeing a summary of so many books. Was expecting to see something like: * life is hard * people can be evil * war is inevitable * everyone is afraid of dying * humans persevere even in the face of insurmountable odds
There's a quote from Naval Ravikant that I really like (but now can't find), "All self-help books essentially boil down to 'prioritize long-term payoffs over short-term ones'". Haven't seen a single instance of that being incorrect.
Yeah, but this pairs well with that joke about being lost in a hot air balloon. The one about the answer being detailed, technically correct, and utterly useless.
I mean, if homo sapiens could reliably prioritize long-term payoffs over short-term ones, the world would look very different.