# Separate settings for AI bot chat in DM/channel/topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** chat, completed, ai
**Created:** [October 11, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359 "2024-10-11T02:17:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fbpbdmin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbpbdmin)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359/1 "2024-10-11T02:17:19Z")
**feature request:**
separate settings to enable/disable AI bot in DM/channels/topics discussion
**problem:**
currently, for a persona, it has settings for “allow chat”, “allow mentions”.
if allow mentions, could chat with AI bot in channel, and in topic discussion.
it is not possible to allow AI bot talks in channels, but not in topic discussion…
- allowing AI bot in topic discussion, it is useful, but the topics could be easily flooded with these AI-generated content.
- a reply to the bot’s message triggers the AI bot to reply… this is correct behavior, but folks does not realize it even not meant to do that (should use the reply botton below there), sometimes, it just gets the discussion keep going with joking/irrelevant content.. on and on, bit annoying…
this is good and bad, good for more interactions, bad for too much AI-generated content.
**proposed solution**
- separate settings to enable AI bot chat in DM/channels/topics,
for our case, like to have AI bot chats only in channels, that is fun and helpful. the content is cleared out in days…
- “add quotas so you can throttle it even further” (@sam mentioned this in chat, he might already have some thought on this…)
- ~~in~~~~ topic ~~~~discussion~~~~ , ~~~~ AI ~~~~bot~~~~ should ~~~~only~~~~ responses ~~~~when~~~~ mentioned ~~~~,~~ ~~should~~~~ not ~~~~keep~~~~ replying ~~~~to~~~~ any ~~~~comment~~~~.~~
hope this could be considered soon, we 'd like to enable AI bot chat, but too much AI-generate content in topic discussion looks no good…
thanks…
please vote for this request, thanks ! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359/2 "2024-10-11T04:47:47Z")
Sure there can be separate settings, but an AI persona answers only when mentioned or reply to post is used. And if someone replies that way it means that user wants to conversate with AI. It doesn’t keep talking.
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### Author:  [@fbpbdmin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbpbdmin)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359/3 "2024-10-11T11:46:13Z")
thanks @Jagster pointing out that, you are right, deleted that sentence.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359/4 "2024-10-15T20:21:43Z")
This is now complete:
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> Splits persona permissions so you can allow a persona on different modalities
>
> …
> \- chat dms
> \- personal messages
> \- topic mentions
> \- chat channels
>
> (any combination is allowed)
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> Previously we did not have this flexibility.
>
> Additionally, adds the ability to "tether" a language model to a persona so it will always be used by the persona. This allows people to use a cheaper language model for one group of people and more expensive one for other people
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-settings-for-ai-bot-chat-in-dm-channel-topic/330359/5 "2024-10-15T20:22:03Z")