Ghost
AI
document question answering
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How HN took it
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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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 HNI 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 HNThis 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 HNIt 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 HNFrom 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 HNCould 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
Self host possibility ?
biblical_Arc on HN
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 HNThat'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 HNWould 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 HNLove 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
Just so you're aware of its existence: https://www.wordtune.com/read
MollyRealized on HN