Is there any AI at the core of standard Discourse?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@agemo

If it’s simply a case that a simple statement that there is no ChatGPT or similar AI in the core of Discourse, with a caveat some AI is used in dev and creation as a tool, that may be as close to a satisfactory answer for the ordinary punter on a discourse forum.

@sam

As it stands Discourse core and Discourse AI do not ship any large language models. Discourse AI integrates existing large language models via APIs which admins can enter (Open AI and Anthropic), in future we are likely to support even more models.

Statement

• If you are asking me to say “From now … till the the end of the universe can you commit that LLMs will never find their way into the core product” … the answer is no.

• If you are asking me “Will I be able to opt out, were something like that to happen?” My answer is … probably … we tend to allow admins enormous amounts of freedom with site settings and configuration.