I was able to get a complete summary of the new Mark Lawrence The Library Trilogy.
I read the first book in the series and it was not for me. So I didn't go any further.
But with AI I was able to get closure and ask questions about curious plot points as well as get the ending of every plot point in the trilogy.
I was impressed with how it gave a heading and summary of each plot point per book, not just the overall trilogy.
Additionally, I was able to ask further questions and get some in depth answers for specific plot points that were interesting to me.
I thought this was a really neat way of closing up DNF books and I may continue to do this if I find myself conflicted on not finding a book to my preference but still wanting to know how it all ended.
If anyone is wondering my phone's browser is Brave. And when you type in the search bar the last autocomplete is Ask Leo, the AI creates by Brave. So it's extremely simple to just type your question and instead of doing a Google search you select AI.
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if you are curious how the book ends, you can just read the end
People are not going to be happy about that opinion here I don’t think. I can’t say I haven’t done similar, just with sparknotes or whatever though.
It probably fully made up parts of those “in depth” answers.
I am willing to bet half my monthly wages that ai was making up stuff. I’ve tried that trick with things like Chat GPT for books I finished just for fun, and the thing mostly lied its ass off.
Just read the fucking book or don’t.
AI in its current form is simply text/speech prediction. It cannot be trusted to give accurate information, including book summaries.
There are other places to find book summaries, including the most famous Sparknotes.
I despise AI. It is soulless. It also uses vast quantities of water and so each query is terrible for the environment.
The AI can’t read and can’t form opinions. It’s “in depth” answers are superficial at best, and fabricated at worse.
If you want to discuss books there are better ways to do it than ask an AI. Do your own research and form opinions based on it, or ask people online or offline to discuss the book with you.
I don’t know how accurate AI is… My friend and I read Butter by Asako Yuziki together and asked Chat GPT questions about it after, and it was a disaster. It kept mixing up characters, plots, and everything really. It’s just a badly assembled amalgamation of random comments on the Internet.
This is the dumbest shit ever. For a start, it almost certainly just made shit up. AI doesn’t answer questions correctly, it just says the series of letters it thinks is most likely to follow whatever you said. For second, if it *can* give you a correct summary of any book, it had to have drawn from online plot summaries which already exist and don’t have a major chance of just being complete bullshit.