# Discourse AI **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214 **Category:** Plugin **Tags:** official, included-in-core, ai **Created:** [April 24, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214 "2023-04-24T19:39:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 187
### Author: ![MachineScholar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/machinescholar/32/424719_2.png) [@MachineScholar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MachineScholar) #### Post date: [January 26, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214/187 "2025-01-26T11:45:37Z")
> [@sam](#): > > I do like the idea of allowing people to upload giant PDFs and TXT files and ask them questions in a persona direct, I think it makes sense to make a feature request for this. > > We have a lot of the infrastructure to enable this already. You’re threatening us with a good time my friend. This is definitely the cherry on top of the delicious dessert which the team has already given us. But it’s also poetic in a sense; the idea of an open source technology enabling easy access to intelligent document chatbots using (possibly) open source models is just lovely, and I really support that as a pro open source AI researcher. Otherwise people have to rely on running small models locally with ollama, or trust all of the closed source solutions such as ChatGPT. What I mean is that although Discourse is (and should always be) a community discussion software, it has the potential to do a lot of good for a lot of people the further the team goes in this direction. I personally work with many people who can’t really use any AI in their work (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc) because of privacy and other concerns. They also don’t have and can’t afford dedicated AI engineers to build a custom solution, nor are they technical individuals themselves. So I see a very large market gap here for small and medium businesses/organizations, where Discourse AI is the perfect solution. Actually, my newly founded company wouldn’t even _exist_ without Discourse AI. Y’all have opened up a gold mine here. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214)._