Ask HN: Cheapest way to summarise articles using AI?

Posted by jerrygoyal on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is there an API which I can use to pass the link, and it scrapes the text and provide me summary? else, I can parse text on my server and then pass that text to an AI model to summarise it.

What are some ways to approach this? I'm looking for a good balance between the cost and the quality of summary generated.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest way to summarise articles using AI? by floydax on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:40AM (#36783964)

Not perfect, but I built this to generate summaries for my HN AI related newsletter https://github.com/vlameiras/hn-ai-news. I just fetch the content locally with requests and then feed it to GPT-4 API

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest way to summarise articles using AI? by Kelteseth on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:41AM (#36783967)

Why don't you ask an AI that question?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest way to summarise articles using AI? by EdTechAndrew on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:20AM (#36785843)

I think GPT-4 (or 3.5 if you are trying to save a few dollars) would be best. OpenAI's models are strong for summarizing text, you would just need to scrape it yourself and pass it to the API.

The API is easy to use and there are a lot of supported libraries already for whatever language you prefer: https://platform.openai.com/docs/libraries/node-js-library.

If you are lucky enough to get off the plugin waitlist, you can even use the web browsing plugin for GPT-4 and that should let you just pass in a link.

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