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Is it actually summarizing the books, or is it regurgitating things other people have said about the books in its training data?
Did you actually ask for bullet points and ChatGPT gave you numbered points instead? Or did you just ask for 5 point summaries and it chose to use numbered points?
For the books I checked where I felt I could reasonably guess what topics would be covered and in what order, the 5 points seemed to cover things in the same order I expect the book covered them.
If that is the case numbered points would be more appropriate than bullet points, so if it was ChatGPT that decided on numbers vs. bullets it looks like it made the right call.
So you bought and fed 14,500 books into the AI to make these summaries?
It 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.
This is my feeling two. Many times the author tries to say the same thing 20 different times to fill a book. Many ot those books could have been a great 30 minute presentation.
> Many times the author tries to say the same thing 20 different times to fill a book. Many of those books could have been a great 30 minute presentation.
I always try to find the source presentation or article and consume that before reading a book. It has served me well. You get the core ideas, concisely, without the fluff.
How do you fit an entire book in a ChatGPT prompt?
It 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.