# AI Chat reageert niet op vermeldingen van hernoemde gebruikers
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [9 mei 2024 om 15:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488 "2024-05-09T15:58:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [9 mei 2024 om 15:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/1 "2024-05-09T15:58:46Z")
I’m naming bots, as most of forum do I reckon. Looks like bot’s name must end `_bot` to get chat ability:
- `johndoe_bot` knows how to respond in chat channels
- `johndoe` ghosts totally in chat channels
Everything else works nicely.
Is there something or did I break poor bot? Logs are clean.
**Edit**
I was wrong. It answers, but something strange there is. If I use johndoe\_bot I get answer right away. But without \_bot I have to mention johndoe\_bot even it doesn’t exist to get answer from johndoe.
And yes, I renamed AI-person first johndoe\_bot after I enabled mention/chat. Then I renamed original profile johndoe to johndoe0. Last step was re-rename 😝 johndoe\_bot as johndoe.
Reason for that was my users know AI-person as johndoe when it arrived. When I enabled mentions and chat new user was created by Discourse AI.
De facto those are same AI-person, though. I want to avoid in any cost situation where one must remember different names depending if it is called from PM, chat or post.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [10 mei 2024 om 04:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/2 "2024-05-10T04:37:47Z")
Just to confirm, you renamed the user your created (particularly the username?)
Can you supply some screenshots?
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [10 mei 2024 om 06:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/3 "2024-05-10T06:11:16Z")
No. I renamed that user that was automatic created when I allowed mentions.
1. I created an AI-person and gave an username `johndoe`
2. I allowed mentions and user `something_bot` was created for me
3. I renamed `something_bot` → `johndoe_bot` because there already was `johndoe`
4. I renamed `johndoe` → `johndoe0`
5. I renamed `johndoe_bot` → `johndoe`
What was expected is I have now two users for same persona:
- `johndoe0` (the original `johndoe`)
- `johndoe` (created by allowing mentions and got 2 renaming steps)
What was not expected is I can talk to newborn `johndoe` but it refuses answer unless I mention its earlier name `johndoe_bot` that does not exist anymore.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [10 mei 2024 om 07:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/4 "2024-05-10T07:02:53Z")
> [@Jagster](#):
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> What was not expected is I can talk to newborn `johndoe` but it refuses answer unless I mention its earlier name `johndoe_bot` that does not exist anymore.
this is extremely confusing, cause the only user that exists and only mentionable entity is (5) johndo which would be this username:
Can you Chat DM this user?
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [10 mei 2024 om 08:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/5 "2024-05-10T08:35:06Z")
Yes I can when I do it privately. I don’t know what happends on public channel. It works even then, because I have strong feeling something is sideways on my forum.
I’m very close to delete that problematic persona and all its users and start from the scratch. Something I should do first, I admit that.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [16 mei 2024 om 09:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/6 "2024-05-16T09:14:10Z")
This issue disappeared after I changes to GPT-4o — and of course I had rebuilding to get that.
I had feeling — because I really don’t know anything how these things work — that this is/was the issue:
We have actually three participants on PM. When I changed to GPT-4o I didn’t renamed that user as I did earlier. Maybe something went sideways on that process.
Anyway. Now it works.