Ghost

AI

document question answering

SHOW HN2023

57points
50comments
#994of 3,109 in 2023
Top 32%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 9 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.

Execution: 1 for, 7 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for quickly checking answers in documents like lease agreements

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      thewataccount on HN
    • 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…
      rnk on HN
  • Interesting idea for legal documents

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      gitgud on HN

Objections

  • Answers may miss relevant sections because retrieval only uses a few chunks

    From 4 comments
    • 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…
      ilaksh on HN
    • 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…
      nathanwh on HN
    • 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,…
      ilaksh on HN
    • 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…
      pablo24602 on HN
  • Unclear privacy policy for uploaded confidential documents

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      aver4geredditor on HN
    • 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…
      aver4geredditor on HN
  • Trust in ChatGPT answers is hard to verify

    From 1 comment
    • (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…
      JadoJodo on HN
  • Site crashed or returned errors under traffic

    From 1 comment
    • 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 :)
      Ostatnigrosh on HN

Requests

  • Self-hosting option

    From 1 comment
  • Support for larger documents and books

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      gigel82 on HN
    • 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…
      gigel82 on HN
  • Code or explanation of embeddings approach

    From 2 comments
    • Any code or pseudo-code you could share that does something like that?
      nico on HN
    • Would you mind explaining this and maybe dumbing it down? Sounds useful
      bilsbie on HN

Questions

  • How will the page limit be expanded?

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      ilaksh on HN
  • What is the privacy policy?

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      aver4geredditor on HN
    • Love this idea -- also curious on privacy policy
      KerryJones on HN

Alternatives named

  • ChatPDF

    From 1 comment
    • Ghost is a well known blogging platform so you might want to change the name. This seems similar to ChatPDF.com (with a 200 page limit though, instead of the 5 page limit that…
      satvikpendem on HN
  • Ctrl+F search

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      thewataccount on HN
  • Wordtune Read

    From 1 comment

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