# Sentiment analysis - useful or pointless?

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**Category:** General\
**Tags:** ai, ai-sentiment\
**Created:** [October 25, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sentiment-analysis-useful-or-pointless/415679 "2026-10-25T17:46:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sentiment-analysis-useful-or-pointless/415679/2 "2026-10-25T17:48:05Z")

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We recently made it possible to use an LLM instead to do the classification, and @sam is adding the capacity to use Jev style decision models to do sentiment classification.

It will be more costly, but with greater accuracy.

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