Depending on the crypto point of view: If you encounter long documents or a lot of complex text, ChatGPT can help you summarize the main points in the following ways.
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT play an important auxiliary role in summarizing long articles, research papers, and books, making this task much easier. However, when using ChatGPT to write a summary for school or work, we should make it clear that its role is to help us understand the topic, not replace us to complete the work.
Meanwhile, here are the steps to write an article using ChatGPT:
How to Write an Article Using ChatGPT For students who need to write a research paper, those who want to understand the content of a long-form article, or those who are interested in complex topics, ChatGPT can simplify the process.
How ChatGPT generates an abstract for you Materials required: You need a device with an internet connection, an OpenAI account, and the URL of an article, research paper, or the title of a book. The whole process takes about one to three minutes.
1. Find an article, thesis or book to summarize If you need ChatGPT help summarizing an article or research paper, find it online and open it in a separate tab.
2. Open a web browser and log into OpenAI Open a web browser of your choice and type chat.openai.com/chat.
Log in or register an account.
3. Enter your request In the chat box, type "TLDR:" followed by a link to your article or research paper. TLDR stands for "too long to read".
After typing the prompt, paste the link to your article or research paper and ChatGPT will know you need it to give you an abstract. Then, hit the send button and the chatbot will provide you with a summary.
Or, sometimes it doesn't give you a summary either.
Asking ChatGPT to summarize an article by URL sometimes has success or failure. Sometimes, a chatbot will give you a seemingly accurate but brief summary. But sometimes, it can hallucinate, or give you an error message that it cannot access the internet.
It is recommended to read the article in its entirety before requesting ChatGPT to summarize the article to determine whether the chatbot's answer is accurate. For a more reliable but less cumbersome abstract, you can copy-paste the text of an article or research paper into the prompt.
4. Summarize a book To summarize a book, just type "Summary [title of the book]" into the prompt. Please ensure the book is published by 2021.
It is not recommended to use ChatGPT to summarize books that you have not read to ensure that you do not give wrong information in front of book reviews or people who want to know about the book. But if you haven't read the book in a few years and want to review it, it's helpful to use ChatGPT to summarize it.
FAQ What are the limitations of ChatGPT?
If you use ChatGPT to summarize an article, book or research paper, remember that ChatGPT has no knowledge of events after 2021.
For example, if you were to ask ChatGPT about Joe Biden's campaign to ban TikTok this year, the chatbot would tell you: "It's unclear whether the Biden administration will take any action on TikTok in the future".
If you try to get around this by providing articles with information beyond 2021, it can be hallucinating. Here, I have the chatbot summarize an article I wrote about a new app by making up some details.
Can ChatGPT summarize PDFs?
If you can open the PDF in a web browser, you can try copying the link and pasting it into ChatGPT. But chatbots can hallucinate when processing URLs with ChatGPT. The best way to do this is to read PDFs and use the chatbot as a summarization tool rather than an educational tool.
If you're looking for an AI chatbot that can reliably provide you with accurate summaries of PDFs, consider ChatPDF. You can summarize up to three PDFs of up to 120 pages per day, with an upgrade plan available for $5 per month.
Can ChatGPT summarize emails?
To some extent yes. If you want to copy and paste every email, ChatGPT can summarize the content of the entire email thread for you. However, it would be more helpful to scan the email thread yourself and ask ChatGPT for help writing a reply based on the key points you learned.