OpenAI Buys Berlin Library Naming Rights, Offers AI-Generated Book Summaries

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Did the authors of those books get anything? Can’t imagine book sales will improve when anyone can ask chatGPT to:

“summarize the main ideas of this book”

“Tell me more about this idea”

“Tell me more about that”

From the article:

> Tuesday, April 1

But it's... believable, plausible. Well let's hope it's an April-first thing...

The authors of the books didn't get anything because this article is an April fools joke ("Update: April fools" at the bottom).

Hypothetically if it were a real scheme, it doesn't seem like it'd displace a sale given the summaries are only for books the library has already bought.

Wow, they really got me with that April Fools' prank! Sorry for the mix-up, folks.

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