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Obviously. It was so easy it took me seconds to verify before posting. But that's fine. It's Sunday morning and I will give you an alternative version that is immune to prompt-ineptness. Cunningham's Law shall not be denied today.

1. Visit the embedded google slides URL https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XMCU2vxtxxqqQ2NY567n...

2. Click File

3. Scroll down to 'Download' and point your cursor at it and wait for the submenu to open

4. Select PDF Document

5. Upload the PDF Document to your chat agent of choice

Not everyone is able to type the following and get results, but I'm built different:

> Summarize this for me: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/

> It’s a google slides thing but i don’t want to click through

Here. Scroll bar included so you can see it's literally the only prompt https://imgur.com/a/Qela4qt



Embeded slides URL is a great hack from which you can just download as .txt directly.

A summary is distinct from reading it. It summarized fine, but that's not the thing.

edit: upon it outputting a summary, asking it to reproduce as continuous prose it refuses.

One shotting and asking not to summarize it complies? I hate this world sometimes.

it's available here tho: https://nathancheng.fyi/03-Records/Clippings/Coordination+He...


One of the things I do when I want a transcription is say something like "Transcribe this PDF into text for me please". ChatGPT once again is able to do this for me flawlessly since the text layer is entirely preserved in the PDF. But again, I'm built different.

Cunningham, I obey thy dictum without fail. Bless me for my service. I praise thee with my every act.

Behold the arcane acts at work: https://imgur.com/a/Zg0z5k4

Works of magnificence no mere mortal could achieve.




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