Summarizing online articles

ChatGPT can also summarize articles from the web. Boom - shortest lecture in this entire course!

There are two main ways you can ask the tool to summarize details from the web.

1. You can copy and paste an article's URL into ChatGPT, like this:


2: You can copy and paste the article, and not include the URL at all, like this:

By the way, you'll notice that the two summaries differ based how you copied the text. The summary of the text that we manually copied and pasted into the AI box is a bit longer, suggesting that it "reads" text more thoroughly when pasted onto the site.

Interesting, no? If you do use ChatGPT to summarize articles, blogs, eBooks, etc., it might be worth experimenting with results pulled from the URL vs copied/pasted text.

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