Smmry.com is ceasing its services

6 pointsposted a year ago
by yawnxyz

2 Comments

yawnxyz

a year ago

I've been using smmry off and on for as long as I can remember (maybe a decade)? And it's always felt like absolute magic to me.

I loved how you could give it how many paragraphs you wanted to summarize a longer text into, and it could just magically do it.

To this day, I have no idea how they did it (this is pre-transformers). Now that they're shutting down, I really hope they release the source code, just for us to get a glimpse behind the magic.

stefanos82

a year ago

Let me guess...ChatGPT throw them out of the market, thanks to how summary works, depending how you ask your questions?

If this is the plausible scenario, this would be just sad -_-