I’m looking for ways to integrate AI into my Discourse forum to assist with moderation. I don’t need it to replace my moderators, I just need help catching things humans usually can’t see. Sometimes, it’s because these issues are literally invisible to a moderator (like a spammer who is creating mul…

[image] Seth Williams: what’s holding this kind of innovation back I don’t know but I would guess: AI is very unrealiable, and can be very fast very expensive. Some of those options are already possible, though. And not in common use mainly because, well, AI is unrealiable and needs a human …

Have you had a look at the current capabilities of Discourse AI? It already supports auto flagging via llm (paired with automation)

I did just hear about this yesterday from @Jagster (thanks, Jakke, for pointing that out). I’ve been looking into this a bit more, the advanced version in particular… and if I’m reading it right, it looks like it’ll be somewhat expensive to implement this, either by having an Enterprise hosting acco…

There are a lot of potential positive things for this, also a lot of risks and drawbacks. Stack Exchange has an A.I. bot that reviews answers and will mention this to the author if their answer seems unclear: “As it’s currently written your answer is unclear. Please edit to add additional details …

[image] Seth Williams: it looks like it’ll be somewhat expensive to implement this, either by having an Enterprise hosting account or a pretty beefy self-hosted server. It’s not resource intensive on your self-hosted instance because you can just use hosted models, e.g., openai. So you just p…

[image] Discourse Google Perspective API Plugin discourse2 Summary Google Perspective API is the official Google Perspective API plugin for Discourse hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-perspective-api open_book In…

I built a custom integration for a client using Discourse. Collected past moderation activity and trained an NLP to flag topics and comments that needed attention. Added a toxicity moderator also trained from their past moderation activity. Added a sentiment integration to help quickly resolve com…

[image] SethWilliams: Not to mention (and this would be going in a slightly different direction), there are times when AI could even respond to certain topics with a clearly marked AI profile. For example, if someone posts a question about how to use the forum or where to find a certain feature …

AI Forum Moderation: Seeking Insights and Experiences

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eisammy (Sammy) June 26, 2024, 8:01pm 7

Look this

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AI Forum Moderation: Seeking Insights and Experiences

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