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Obviously with the char limit that's impossible... So some buddies and I built Ghost. We have it limited to 5 pages for uploads for now, but plan on expanding the limit soon. Let me know what you guys think!",{"problem":48,"audience":54,"pricing":54,"motivation":55,"time_to_build":54,"stack":59,"openness":60,"stage":61,"team_size":62},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Asking ChatGPT questions about long documents like books, which exceed its character limit","maker",[52],{"id":53},"post",null,{"value":56,"source":50,"evidence":57},"Wanted to upload a whole book to ChatGPT and ask questions",[58],{"id":53},[],"unknown","beta","team",{"praise":64,"objections":84,"requests":126,"questions":155,"alternatives":168},[65,77],{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Useful for quickly checking answers in documents like lease agreements","commenter",[69,73],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"35060380","thewataccount","This is not meant to be a critique just an open question to everyone trying it - does anyone find this to be more useful then just ctrl+f? For compiling information or getting an…",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"35076023","rnk","I asked if I could use the rental as a foreign embassy location. It gave the reasonable answer, quoting the agreement that you could only use it as a private residence and you…",{"value":78,"source":67,"evidence":79},"Interesting idea for legal documents",[80],{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"35067605","gitgud","This is exactly the application I was thinking of when I first used ChatGPT. Using AI to summarize complex legal documents, and be able to ask questions about the document. Have…",[85,103,113,120],{"value":86,"source":67,"evidence":87},"Answers may miss relevant sections because retrieval only uses a few chunks",[88,92,96,99],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"35060204","ilaksh","5 pages fits in the context window. How exactly do you plan on expanding the limit? Without explanation we have to assume you haven't completely solved your core technical…",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"35060271","nathanwh","This explains why \"What if I move out early?\" for the sample document doesn't mention any of the information in the lease break section, which is definitely the most important…",{"id":97,"by":90,"text":98},"35060309","It may only be retrieving the top N results with most similar embedding. If that answer is in the 3rd most similar chunk and it only fed 2 along with the query in the prompt,…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"35060493","pablo24602","From the website, it seems as though they are retrieving five chunks. Also looks like they split documents by paragraph sections, unless the paragraphs are small enough- then…",{"value":104,"source":67,"evidence":105},"Unclear privacy policy for uploaded confidential documents",[106,110],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"35060085","aver4geredditor","I didn't do any extensive testing but seems to be really useful. However, where can we see the privacy policy? People are probably going to upload some important and confidential…",{"id":111,"by":108,"text":112},"35060344","Could you please add a more detailed policy to your site? For example, who can see, use or access the uploaded documents in any other way and whether the documents are used to…",{"value":114,"source":67,"evidence":115},"Trust in ChatGPT answers is hard to verify",[116],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"35060330","JadoJodo","(This critique is unrelated to this project. It works as expected, OP, and looks good.) How could one ever trust the output of ChatGPT? This feels to me a bit like non-L5…",{"value":121,"source":50,"evidence":122},"Site crashed or returned errors under traffic",[123],{"id":124,"by":11,"text":125},"35060428","Wow, thanks so much everyone for checking out Ghost! We are currently crashing because of all the traffic. Should be up and running in 30 minutes :)",[127,134,144],{"value":128,"source":67,"evidence":129},"Self-hosting option",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"35066417","biblical_Arc","Self host possibility ?",{"value":135,"source":67,"evidence":136},"Support for larger documents and books",[137,141],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"35060562","gigel82","Projects like these (using embeddings) are great, but what I'm looking for is something that can ingest an entire book (let's say a fiction book) then answer questions about the…",{"id":142,"by":139,"text":143},"35061955","That's pretty interesting but ideally, I'd be able to upload my own book (txt, pdf, epub) and interact with it. It's lacking implementation details so not sure if you use…",{"value":145,"source":67,"evidence":146},"Code or explanation of embeddings approach",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"35060622","nico","Any code or pseudo-code you could share that does something like that?",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"35060594","bilsbie","Would you mind explaining this and maybe dumbing it down? Sounds useful",[156,160],{"value":157,"source":67,"evidence":158},"How will the page limit be expanded?",[159],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},{"value":161,"source":67,"evidence":162},"What is the privacy policy?",[163,164],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"35060182","KerryJones","Love this idea -- also curious on privacy policy",[169,176,180],{"value":170,"source":67,"evidence":171},"ChatPDF",[172],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"35060315","satvikpendem","Ghost is a well known blogging platform so you might want to change the name. 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