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The power of LLMs to automate mindless labor is quite impressive.

My Bitcoin Politicians project requires 100+ hours of manual labor each year to sift through thousands of pages of PDF financial disclosures looking for Bitcoin related terms.

Now I have a script that can accomplish this task in 6 hours with no human labor. Only costs $15 in OpenAI credits to feed all the PDFs in and have the LLM search for relevant terms!
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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

Why is an LLM better than a regular search index for this?

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Jameson Lopp 1y ago

Not sure what you mean by regular search index.

The problem is that most of the financial disclosures are handwritten scanned pages that you can't simply do a search upon - LLMs are great at character recognition.

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

Ah, so the LLM might not be doing the actual search function, but compiling all the text digitally 🤙