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Matthew
@matthew
I want to talk to ChatGPT about books—granularly reference, make outlines, debate core points, expand on topics, etc. I would easily pay $20 per book to do this. Why can't OpenAI facilitate that txn, and why wouldn't authors be open to it? The alternative (pirating) feels like limewire before iTunes came around.
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Ben
@benersing
Its a frustration of mine as well. I'd especially like to query and discuss across all the books in my library. I bet it becomes possible once books onchain becomes a thing.
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@grunt.eth
Hasn’t it read all of goodreads and every printed book pre 2022?
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seems like you are fresh off a book that stuck this nerve. What book would you start with?
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@bleu.eth
would you pay anyone else than openai? rag is a solved problem openai cant do this dur to copyright
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allenbarth
@allenbarth
How about making your own ElizaOS agent for your activities? Can you have your own copy of the books and copy and past them into an LLM agent to debate?
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@rubinovitz
I don't think publishers will ever trust ai companies with their books after all the copyright infringement. May be an interesting use case for crypto x ai but I dont think the market is big enough for the trouble.
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I've wanted this feature a few times it would be so great.
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@maurice
Maybe try Deepseek. If heard, I don’t know if it’s true, but Marc Andressen speculated that Deepseek was trained on copyrighted material (libgen, etc)
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@i-d0-care
Great point. A system where OpenAI enables paid, licensed book discussions could benefit both readers and authors, deep insights, structured debates, and fair compensation. Right now, the gap pushes people toward shallow AI responses or piracy, just like music pre-iTunes. Would authors see this as a threat or an opportunity?
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