We have many topics that exceed typical context lengths (say 128k) and bad things happen. Have you considered summarizing based on only the most-liked posts? Start with the most-liked post, add the next-most-liked, and continue until the target context length is reached, then pass the resulting text to the GPT? For our forum at least, “likes” are a very good proxy for “most relevant”.

Hmm, summarizing appears to hang on long topics, so I assumed it was related to the content length. Any tips for debugging this? I’m using gpt-o4. I don’t see a way to view specific API requests in my OpenAI dashboard.

You can see requests on the ai_api_audit_logs table. Regarding the hanging mid summarization, we had some front end bugs on that front recently, so please update your site to latest.

I found this in the error logs: Request too large for gpt-4o in organization org-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on tokens per min (TPM): Limit 30000, Requested 45906. To increase my limits, I believe I have to actually spend $50 (not just budget it) and wait something like a month plus 7 days: [image] So far I’ve only spent $2.00 and no payment is due yet. I also don’t see how to cap the tokens in Discourse. So I don’t see how to use summarization for long topics at this point.

Ohhh so the issue is that you have a restricted OpenAI account that limits you on tokens per minute, which impact using AI summarization on Discourse. That’s is such a bummer. I’d look into alternative providers, like Antrhopic, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or even Llama API providers. I believe there are providers with a free tier that will give you a higher limit than that.

I switched from using 4o to 4o-mini for summarization, and that appears to work on my longest topics. Apparently OpenAI has different limits for the different GPTs.

Why Does My Forum Summarisation Keep Hanging?

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Falco (Falco) October 25, 2024, 12:02am 2

That is how it works on long topics, we use the top 50 most liked posts in the topic.

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