OK, so yeah, there’s

https://wikisummaries.org

But it’s neither very good nor comprehensive. I think a user-generated Wiki that’s extremely extensive in its number of entries (like Goodreads) and has deep chapter by chapter break downs, user discussion boards, questions, themes etc. would be extreeeemely useful. I imagine it covering every kind of books: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc. or anything with an ISBN#.

I would like this personally because a lot of times I’d like to discuss themes in books that are a bit too obscure to get many replies to on a sub like this. If you are posting directly to the specific book’s wiki page you know you’ll be getting feedback from people also thinking about that book.

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      Anyone downvoting me should try it. I asked it to summarize up to what I’ve read in a book I haven’t picked up in months and it did the thing.

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        Did it do it correctly? I tried it on multiple different books and some were sort of right and some were 100% wrong.

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          This tracks with what I know about chatgpt. It will often correctly pull information and give it to you but other times it will outright fabricate things in attempt to answer your question. There was a story last year about a lawyer who didn’t understand that chatgpt will do this false information thing and they used it to try and find relevant legal rulings, and chatgpt made up a legal ruling that the lawyer actually used in a court. The judge did not take kindly to that.