r/ChatGPT has produced 4 Reddit threads that scored 7 or higher on BID's AI opportunity model, 1 of them scoring 8 or above. The highest-upvoted thread, "Can ChatGPT Successfully Extract Data From PDFs Into Excel/CSV At Scale?," pulled 12,239 upvotes from people describing the same unmet need. 1 of those threads have already been turned into full validated idea reports below, each with keyword demand and a feasibility score. r/ChatGPT skews toward people describing daily workflow friction rather than pitching startups, which is exactly the kind of unfiltered complaint BID's scanner is built to catch.
“NEED HELP! Hi :). Not sure if this is a niche use case or similar amongst many companies, but my company has tens of thousands of PDFs that we are sent from clients/vendors/etc. that we need extracted into a csv/excel format. Currently we are manually doing this but I figured I could use ChatGPT or a similar tool to automate this process instead of the hundreds of hours it takes away from our team a year. I tried it for the first few with deep-thinking models and was able to have some success, however it struggled when I tried to import tons of documents or when they exceeded 10 pages. A friend recommended an mapping/template OCR tool, but I need a "smart tool" because some of the data I need in the output does not exist in the documents but either can be calculated or searched (hence why I assumed we would need AI functionality/should start here). Has anyone replicated something similar to this in ChatGPT or a similar tool at scale and could share how? Also open to other tools but”
Companies with tens of thousands of client/vendor PDFs need scalable automated extraction to CSV/Excel; current manual process is painful and ChatGPT insufficient at scale
“ Before we start thank you to everyone willing to help and I’m sorry if this is incoherent or rambling because I’m in distress. I just returned from winter break this past week and received an email from my English teacher (I attached screenshots, warning he’s a yapper) accusing me of using ChatGPT or another AI program to write my midterm. I wrote a sentence with the words "intricate interplay" and so did the ChatGPT essay he received when feeding a similar prompt to the topic of my essay. If I can’t disprove this to my principal this week I’ll have to write all future assignments by hand, have a plagiarism strike on my records, and take a 0% on the 300 point grade which is tanking my grade. A friend of mine who was also accused (I don’t know if they were guilty or not) had their meeting with the principal already and it basically boiled down to "It’s your word against the teachers and teacher has been teaching for 10 years so I’m going to take their word." I’m scared because I’ve ”
Students need writing authentication tool to prove original work when accused of AI use by professors
“TLDR; opposing counsel just filed a brief that is 100% an AI hallucination. The hearing is on Tuesday. I'm an attorney practicing civil litigation. Without going to far into it, we represent a client who has been sued over a commercial licensing agreement. Opposing counsel is a collections firm. Definitely not very tech-savvy, and generally they just try their best to keep their heads above water. Recently, we filed a motion to dismiss, and because of the proximity to the trial date, the court ordered shortened time for them to respond. They filed an opposition (never served it on us) and I went ahead and downloaded it from the court's website when I realized it was late. I began reading it, and it was damning. Cases I had never heard of with perfect quotes that absolutely destroyed the basis of our motion. I like to think I'm pretty good at legal research and writing, and generally try to be familiar with relevant cases prior to filing a motion. Granted, there's a lot of case law, a”
Lawyers need automated verifier for AI-generated legal filings to catch hallucinations before court submission
“discovered this by accident while trying to stretch my free tier. was burning through messages embarrassingly fast. long prompts. detailed context. full sentences. please and thank you. the whole thing. then one day i was tired and just typed: *"fix bug. line 47. null error."* it fixed it. same quality. one fifth of the tokens. i sat there staring at it like i'd discovered fire. **the caveman theory in one sentence:** Claude is not your colleague. it does not need pleasantries. it does not need full sentences. it needs information. just information. nothing else. **before caveman theory:** *"hey Claude, i hope this makes sense but i've been working on this project and i'm running into an issue with the function on line 47, it keeps throwing a null error and i'm not sure what's causing it, could you take a look and help me figure out what's going wrong?"* 57 words. full credits burned. Claude reads the pleasantries and processes zero useful information from them. **after cav”
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