How are we all feeling about ChatGPT and other LLMs and how they'll impact forums?

Perhaps you’re already familiar with it, but Discourse kind of does this already. When you start a topic, it automatically returns search results based on what you are describing.

The next stage of solving that problem would be helping the user describe their problem more accurately. This is where I think LLMs could provide simple feedback like “you might get better help if you include a code snippet that shows what you have done so far”. Perhps this could even be a followup PM to the user if their topic has no replies after a few days.

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