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sisyphean

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A little insane, but in a good way.

Why this name?

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It is definitely possible, at least for videos that have a transcript. There are tools to download the transcript which can be fed into an LLM to be summarized.

I tried it here with excellent results: https://programming.dev/post/158037 - see the post description!

See also the conversation: https://chat.openai.com/share/b7d6ac4f-0756-4944-802e-7c63fbd7493f

I used GPT-4 for this post, which is miles ahead of GPT-3.5, but it would be prohibitively expensive (for me) to use it for a publicly available bot. I also asked it to generate a longer summary with subheadings instead of a TLDR.

The real question is if it is legal to programmatically download video transcripts this way. But theoretically it is entire possible, even easy.

sisyphean,
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It doesn't work yet, the screenshots are from a test Lemmy instance

sisyphean,
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It does unfortunately, see here:

https://openai.com/pricing

I limited it to 100 summaries / day, which adds up to about $20 (USD) per month if the input is 3000 tokens long and the answer is 1000.

Using it for personal things (I buildt a personal assistant chatbot for myself) is very cheap. But if you use it in anything public, it can get expensive quickly.

sisyphean, (edited )
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Or when it tells you that it can do something it actually can't, and it hallucinates like crazy. In the early days of ChatGPT I asked it to summarize an article at a link, and it gave me a very believable but completely false summary based on the words in the URL.

This was the first time I saw wild hallucination. It was astounding.

AITA for asking a LLM to do things that are supposed to be my job?

So here's the scoop, folks. I have this friend, let's call him Chatty, because, well, he's always got something to say. Now, I know what you're thinking - that's just what friends do, right? They talk, they listen, they offer advice. But here's the thing - Chatty isn't your everyday, run-of-the-mill friend. He's a whiz at...

sisyphean,
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Your job is to do your tasks in the most efficient way possible. You actually harm the company by doing unnecessary busywork instead of using the best tools available.

sisyphean, (edited )
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I’m glad that this post has reached 7 upvotes. I’m looking forward to participating in the this_is_an_example community!

sisyphean,
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“Only” 58, all of them topics of hyperfocus forgotten after a couple of weeks.

sisyphean, (edited )
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Community name squatting doesn't make sense at all because different instances can have communities with the same name. So unless they manage to create one on all of the big instances, that's completely useless.

sisyphean,
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Exactly. Federated services seem to be much more resilient against abuse by design.

sisyphean,
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That’s a problem for sure. And if someone has a display name, someone else can create a user with the same avatar and display name on another instance, and pretend to be them.

sisyphean,
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I'm on Lemmy because I've found a really nice programming-focused instance I like. But I was seriously considering kbin because its UI seems to be more polished.

But the great thing about the fediverse is that unless you are on a radical instance most others block, it doesn't matter where you register, and even the choice between Kbin and Lemmy becomes an aesthetic/usability one. You don't lose out on anything, you can subscribe to communities anywhere, post, comment, message people etc.

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