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May 3, 2023Liked by Christoph Molnar

Nice post! You mention a edit.py script, which is not the script in the gist (that one is called gpt-proofread.py). Would you mind sharing that too?

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This is great, however, your book’s content is now in the OpenAI database or corpus or training set or whatever you want to call it, even before being published. Aren’t you concerned about that? You have no copyright protection yet.

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Nov 4, 2023·edited Nov 4, 2023

While searching for like-minded developers, I came across your post. My proofreading workflows mainly consists of emails, markdown (GitHub pages), and some company-internal tools. GPT-3.5 gets it right almost every time, but having a diff and selectively applying changes is crucial for me. I have approached this problem with a small open-source desktop app that requires an OpenAI API token. It is still in the experimental stage in terms of functionality and design, but it already operates quite reliably at its core:

https://www.aibtra.dev

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I don't have access to the gpt-4 model in the API, so I tried gpt-3.5-turbo and it simply summarises the first lines of text and removes the rest. I have only some lines for testing in one document, the lines of text are separated by blank lines. And I use plain text, no markdown, but that shouldn't be an issue.

Maybe I'll have to wait for gpt-4 in this case.

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