ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

What's sets this apart from https://www.chatpdf.com/?

Looks like Scholar Turbo has GPT-4 and Chatpdf is still on the waitlist. But yeah, these chat-with-your-doc webapps are popping up out of the woodwork.

There's a gentleman I follow on Twitter who run a bootcamp after chatgpt was unveiled https://twitter.com/mayowaoshin.

He had demo videos on how to build similar applications. From what I understand the first cohort was made up of people from all manner of professions, notably consulting, finance, academia, manufacturing etc.

I knew it was only a matter of time before we see clones offering this as a service. To put it mildly, some even went as far as copying his code verbatim and using it to launch such services without acknowledging his effort.

One major downside of releasing content and open source code is the handful of users who copy and paste for commercial use without giving credit.

All of a sudden there's a wave of "chat with pdf" youtube videos using my exact content, diagrams and images.

https://twitter.com/mayowaoshin/status/1650181657746370561

No, he didn’t “invent” Chat with PDF use case given there were already Chat with PDF SaaS apps around even in January, and Langchain etc had PDF loaders even back in Jan. Plus most of this code base seem to come straight out of OpenAI cookbook.

But yes Twitter is a wild Wild West right now of people ripping ideas off any trending repos

In answer to file security: "We utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) for uploading and storing files, ensuring robust security measures, including data encryption and access control."

Well, sure, but that's the file at rest. What about the security / privacy of the data as it's fed to ChatGPT? More and more of these "ask your doc / data a question" apps are popping up. Isn't this about equivalent to putting the document on the public internet or is there some sort of sandboxing involved?