<story><title>Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT</title><url>https://www.eightify.app/</url><text>Hi, I&amp;#x27;m Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it&amp;#x27;s been nine weeks since I started.&lt;p&gt;I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a Chrome extension, and I&amp;#x27;m offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I&amp;#x27;m not making money yet, but it pays for GPT, which can be pricey for long texts. And some of Lex Fridman&amp;#x27;s podcasts are incredibly long.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m one of those overly optimistic people when it comes to GPT. So many people tell me, &amp;quot;Oh, it doesn&amp;#x27;t solve this problem yet; let&amp;#x27;s wait for GPT-4&amp;quot;. The real issue is that their prompts are usually inadequate, and it takes you anywhere from two days to two weeks to make it work. Testing and debugging, preferably with automated tests. I believe you can solve many problems with GPT-3 already.&lt;p&gt;I would love to answer any questions you have about the product and GPT in general. I&amp;#x27;ve invested at least 500 hours into prompt engineering. And I enjoy watching other people&amp;#x27;s prompts too!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>&amp;gt;I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.&lt;p&gt;Brilliant observation!  It&amp;#x27;s sort of like if you took the most extreme lossy data expansion algorithm -- and then fed the output of that through the most extreme lossy data compression algorithm...&lt;p&gt;User: &amp;quot;Computer, turn binary 1 -- into &lt;i&gt;everything in the Universe&lt;/i&gt;...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Computer: &amp;quot;OK, here it is...&amp;quot; (spits out a result which is [exa|zetta|yotta|ronna|quetta|???]bytes long...)&lt;p&gt;User: &amp;quot;Computer, now turn everything in the Universe back into 1...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Computer: &amp;quot;Processing... this may take some &lt;i&gt;time&lt;/i&gt;... please wait...&amp;quot; (puts up progress bar that increments so slowly that it appears not to move...)&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;g&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;Related quote by Douglas Adams:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.  There is another theory which states that this has already happened.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I could definitely see content creators padding with AI -- and consumers summarizing the content with it...</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT</title><url>https://www.eightify.app/</url><text>Hi, I&amp;#x27;m Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it&amp;#x27;s been nine weeks since I started.&lt;p&gt;I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a Chrome extension, and I&amp;#x27;m offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I&amp;#x27;m not making money yet, but it pays for GPT, which can be pricey for long texts. And some of Lex Fridman&amp;#x27;s podcasts are incredibly long.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m one of those overly optimistic people when it comes to GPT. So many people tell me, &amp;quot;Oh, it doesn&amp;#x27;t solve this problem yet; let&amp;#x27;s wait for GPT-4&amp;quot;. The real issue is that their prompts are usually inadequate, and it takes you anywhere from two days to two weeks to make it work. Testing and debugging, preferably with automated tests. I believe you can solve many problems with GPT-3 already.&lt;p&gt;I would love to answer any questions you have about the product and GPT in general. I&amp;#x27;ve invested at least 500 hours into prompt engineering. And I enjoy watching other people&amp;#x27;s prompts too!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ax8080</author><text>At some point people won&amp;#x27;t be needed in this crazy cycle.</text></comment>