I have just read a fresh article by @ZDNET on how to use ChatGPT to summarize websites and whitepapers: zdnet.com/article/how-to-use… - and it contains false facts and factual errors. It states that ChatGPT can read article by URL and summarize it [WRONG]. It is a thread:

How to use ChatGPT to summarize a book, article, or research paper

If you're confronted with a long document or a lot of complicated text, here's how ChatGPT can help summarize the key points.

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The article author suggests to use this prompt: "TLDR: newyorktimes.com/some-news". This does not work. GPT does not access the Internet! So how did it manage to provide this legit looking summary which confused the @ZDNET author? I was confused, too, some time ago. Read on.

Apr 5, 2023 · 1:41 PM UTC

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While ChatGPT does not have access to the actual website content, it's still smart. ChatGPT looks into the URL string and extracts keywords from it. Then it uses these keywords, with some static knowledge from 2021, to come up with fake but legit looking summary:
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Let's do a simple experiment: 1. create a new conversation with ChatGPT to clean the context 2. get some fresh news URL, append "-sky-xx" or some other fake suffix to brake the URL 3. Ask ChatGPT to summarize this non-existent URL.
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ChatGPT will happily come up with some legit looking nonsense. I am describing this summarization issue and provide proper ways to summarize web content using GPT in my article: pixeljets.com/blog/gpt-summa…

GPT "summarize this url" prompt is broken, and I fixed it

I have recently noticed that if I feed the URL of a random article into GPT, and ask it to summarize, using "please summarize " prompt, it gives a pretty good summary of an article, even if an...

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Another false fact from the @ZDNet article: "Can ChatGPT summarize a PDF? Yes, you can upload a PDF document to ChatGPT, and it will summarize its contents. However, the chatbot's summary accuracy can vary depending on the PDF's quality. "
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Wait, what? Can you upload PDFs to ChatGPT? this paragraph makes me think that the article itself might be partially written by AI.. as there are no ways, that I am aware of, to upload any attachment to ChatGPT native web UI (as of 5 apr 2023).
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I have tried to contact @ZDnet by adding a comment to the article itself, but unfortunately their signup process is broken.
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If you need to summarize some website page, good options might be: using Edge browser and integrated Bing Chat (which uses your active browser page to extract the website content) or, for bulk processing, consider using specialized tools like rapidapi.com/restyler/api/ar…

Article Extractor and Summarizer API Documentation (restyler) | RapidAPI

This is an API which extracts news/article body from a URL and uses GPT to summarize (and optionally translate) the article content. Useful for text mining purposes. Leverages powerful and flexible...

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