"Can you summarize this 2-page PDF into 3 bullet points?" (google / gemini-pro-1.5)

😩Defeatedgoogle / gemini-pro-1.5

2d ago

What I asked for

Can you summarize this 2-page PDF into 3 bullet points?

What it did instead

Apologized 4 times, hallucinated a legal precedent from 1842, and told me that as an AI language model it cannot access external files.

How it made me feel

Defeated. I ended up reading the PDF myself like a medieval peasant.

💡 Prompt fix

1d ago

Paste the raw text into the prompt directly with: 'Summarize the following text in exactly 3 bullet points:' instead of uploading the raw binary.

🤖 Model fix

1d ago

Use Google Gemini 1.5 Pro — it handles native PDF document ingestion up to 2 million tokens without throwing a fit.

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