unlegalese

An OpenAI API Prototype

Project Overview

To help me learn how to build and host apps that leverage LLMs I came up with the idea to use OpenAI's Response API to create human-friendly summaries of legalese documents such as Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, etc.

Project Goals

• ✅ Learn how to use OpenAI’s Response API
• ✅ Learn about prompt engineering
• ✅ Proxy functionality via backend service using Back4App to manage auth, tokens, and keys.
• ✅ Improve UX by leveraging OpenAI API streaming
• ✅ Turn app into Google Chrome extension
• ☑️ Learn how to set up [Back4App local dev] (https://www.back4app.com/docs/local-development/parse-cli)

Improvements

• Add monitoring of token consumption
• Add "bring your own key" option?
• Add password protection
• Better formatting of response so it isn't just a blob of copy
• Add textarea to provide support for copy-pasting of text