I just had a bizarre conversion with the help AI. It gave me bad advice twice, then completely denied having said the things it just said. Even when I pasted screenshots and text copies, it still denied it and accused me of lying to it. Either the AI is going insane or I am :slight_smile: Anyway, i…

[image] Steve_Walmsley: I just had a bizarre conversion with the help AI. It gave me bad advice twice, then completely denied having said the things it just said. Even when I pasted screenshots and text copies, it still denied it and accused me of lying to it. Either the AI is going insane or I …

Thanks - how do I check which model is being used? This is my first time as admin of a Discourse forum, so I am still getting used to it. I don’t recall ever making AI-related changes, so I assume the AI is the Discourse default. This is a hosted forum btw.

[image] Steve_Walmsley: how do I check which model is being used? That is exactly the question I would be trying to run down if I were an admin following up on a report like this. I am an admin on another Discourse hosted forum, so will do a little digging. Also asked ChatGPT to check my …

There is a very long list of AI settings, but these are the top few. Let me know if you need to look for anything specific, or I can post the whole list. [image] EDIT: I have a Claude account entirely separate to this and Claude is fairly helpful with Discourse queries, but I would expect the def…

As I am not an expert on every current Discourse AI setting, this is my best understanding. On both my site and yours, the setting shows: Default LLM model: CDCK Hosted LLM From what I can find, this is Discourse’s hosted LLM service. More precisely, the current CDCK/MoM implementation is a Mixtu…

[image] EricGT: /admin/plugins/discourse-ai/ai-llms I have a lot fewer tags, so maybe I need to add a few more. [image]

At first glance, I was a little surprised by that list. Then I wondered whether you might be on the Free plan. In checking your earlier Changing to Full Width topic, I found: I am on the 14-day trial for the Pro version So that satisfies my curiosity.

Another example so you know it is not just you. [image] Feature requests (and a hilarious completion) Prompting What’s the chance of getting an update to the Playground web page? Would be great if the interface were cleaned up…

I am on the full pro plan now, so it should be the default for that. Also I’m much more comfortable with the Discourse width now and have made the necessary adjustments. It seems weird looking back at older full width forums :slight_smile:

At this point, there is not much more I can add, but I did not want to leave you wondering whether I was still looking into it. I am glad you posted this. I expect others may encounter something similar in the future, and this topic now provides some useful documentation and a clearer path for inve…

Discourse AI going off the rails

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david (David Taylor) September 14, 2026, 9:17am 12

Hi @Steve_Walmsley, thanks for the report!

We’ve made some updates to our CDCK hosted LLM today which should’ve improved things. Please let us know if you see anything like this in future.

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