# Embedding of post is not being properly truncated in discourse-ai plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344 "2023-08-16T08:03:39Z")
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### Author: ![redrum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/redrum/32/321023_2.png) [@redrum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/redrum)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344/1 "2023-08-16T08:03:39Z")

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When I use the OpenAI ADA text embedding model for related posts matching, I get the following error:

```plaintext
OpenAI Embeddings failed with status: 400 body: { "error": { "message": "This model's maximum context length is 8191 tokens, however you requested 19370 tokens (19370 in your prompt; 0 for the c

```

```plaintext
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/lib/shared/inference/openai_embeddings.rb:24:in `perform!'  
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/lib/modules/embeddings/models/text_embedding_ada_002.rb:37:in `generate_embeddings'  
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/lib/modules/embeddings/manager.rb:22:in `generate!'  
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/lib/modules/embeddings/jobs/regular/generate_embeddings.rb:14:in `execute'  
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:292:in `block (2 levels) in perform'  
rails_multisite-5.0.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:82:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:279:in `block in perform'  
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:275:in `each'  
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:275:in `perform'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:202:in `execute_job'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:170:in `block (2 levels) in process'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:177:in `block in invoke'  
/var/www/discourse/lib/sidekiq/pausable.rb:134:in `call'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:179:in `block in invoke'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:182:in `invoke'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:169:in `block in process'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:136:in `block (6 levels) in dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:113:in `local'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:135:in `block (5 levels) in dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq.rb:44:in `block in <module:Sidekiq>'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:131:in `block (4 levels) in dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:263:in `stats'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:126:in `block (3 levels) in dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:13:in `call'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:125:in `block (2 levels) in dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:80:in `global'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:124:in `block in dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:39:in `prepare'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:123:in `dispatch'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:168:in `process'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:78:in `process_one'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:68:in `run'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/component.rb:8:in `watchdog'  
sidekiq-6.5.9/lib/sidekiq/component.rb:17:in `block in safe_thread'

```

Maybe the post needs to be truncated.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344/2 "2023-08-16T08:07:16Z")

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Thanks for reporting, we will have a look.

Luckily we have a method that can truncate a collection of words up to a very specific token count.

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### Author: ![redrum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/redrum/32/321023_2.png) [@redrum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/redrum)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344/4 "2023-08-16T08:08:20Z")

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Nice! Thank you.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344/6 "2023-08-17T01:01:50Z")

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I think we now have this fixed per:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ai/pull/139](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ai/pull/139)

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### Author: ![redrum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/redrum/32/321023_2.png) [@redrum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/redrum)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344/7 "2023-08-17T01:14:54Z")

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Got it. 👍 💪

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-of-post-is-not-being-properly-truncated-in-discourse-ai-plugin/275344/8 "2023-08-20T22:00:46Z")

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