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r*cap produces short audio and text summaries of publicly available research papers. Those summaries are generated by automated systems — large language models and text-to-speech models — from the text of papers published by third parties. Every summary links to, and attributes, the paper it was derived from.

r*cap is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by the authors, institutions, or publishers of the papers we summarise. We add, remove, and change the papers covered by the Service at our discretion, and we may modify or discontinue features at any time.

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Our summaries, audio recordings, site design, and software are AI-generated derivative commentary and original work owned by r*cap or licensed to us. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and listen to them for your own use. Quoting a short extract with attribution and a link is welcome; wholesale reproduction is not.

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Summaries on r*cap are produced by automated systems without per-item human review. They may omit important qualifications, misstate results, misattribute findings, or contain factual errors, and audio narration may mispronounce technical terms. A summary is a pointer to a paper, not a substitute for reading it.

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