MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - [GUI Plugin] * PROPOSED * AI Book Summary

Bradles · 06-03-2023, 07:08 PM

So as not to further clutter the "Plugin Ideas" thread, I've created this thread to discuss the proposed AI Book Summary plugin.

To summarise:

In this post I asked if a plugin to generate some content about a book using a large language model AI would be of interest.
The plugin has already been partially developed.
The plugin does not use the text of the book. It simply uses the title and author and asks the AI to generate content.
Using the entire text of the book would be technically infeasable and expensive.
The plugin generates content in languages other than English. I can't vouch for the quality.
The plugin also generates book covers - really badly.
The plugin can save content in the "extra data files" directory for calibre versions that support it.

Answers to some previous questions:

@JSWolf: if you give a URL to a text version of the book, would that work? No. Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4) currently does, but the OpenAI API I use doesn't.
@colinsky: Exactly.
@mikhail_fil: I think a "free text Q&A" facility is outside the scope of what I'm trying to achieve. Actually using ChatGPT or Bing Chat would be better suited for this. I've tried asking for metadata and AI says no.

For discussion:

I am willing to wear a cost of about US$10/month, which would account for about 10,000 summaries. This means cover generation would not be allowed. (Cover generation costs about 2c/image.)
Would people be willing to set up their own OpenAI account, for which they would need to provide payment details to OpenAI and enter the API key in the plugin config? Then the user base could generate all the content they desired.
Would people be comfortable knowing that my backend infrastructure could log their API key, as well as the content of the prompt and response. I wouldn't of course, but there's no way to prove this.

06-03-2023, 07:08 PM	#1
Bradles Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 35586 Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: Perth, Western Australia Device: Apple Books & Kobo Libra H20	*[GUI Plugin] PROPOSED * AI Book Summary So as not to further clutter the "Plugin Ideas" thread, I've created this thread to discuss the proposed AI Book Summary plugin. To summarise: In this post I asked if a plugin to generate some content about a book using a large language model AI would be of interest. The plugin has already been partially developed. The plugin does not use the text of the book. It simply uses the title and author and asks the AI to generate content. Using the entire text of the book would be technically infeasable and expensive. The plugin generates content in languages other than English. I can't vouch for the quality. The plugin also generates book covers - really badly. The plugin can save content in the "extra data files" directory for calibre versions that support it. Answers to some previous questions:** @JSWolf: if you give a URL to a text version of the book, would that work? No. Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4) currently does, but the OpenAI API I use doesn't. @colinsky: Exactly. @mikhail_fil: I think a "free text Q&A" facility is outside the scope of what I'm trying to achieve. Actually using ChatGPT or Bing Chat would be better suited for this. I've tried asking for metadata and AI says no. For discussion: I am willing to wear a cost of about US$10/month, which would account for about 10,000 summaries. This means cover generation would not be allowed. (Cover generation costs about 2c/image.) Would people be willing to set up their own OpenAI account, for which they would need to provide payment details to OpenAI and enter the API key in the plugin config? Then the user base could generate all the content they desired. Would people be comfortable knowing that my backend infrastructure could log their API key, as well as the content of the prompt and response. I wouldn't of course, but there's no way to prove this. Last edited by Bradles; 06-03-2023 at 07:25 PM.