AI generated Thread Summary, Tags, Prefix, SEO Meta, Thread cover, etc.

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AI / LLM's can be used to make threads and other content more useful and better organized. For better usability, SEO, content discovery and readability.

One of the challenges of using forums is reading through mega-threads with thousands of replies. Especially if high quality replies and useless comments are mixed. For this reasons there have been many requests for a summary feature over the years. Now with the advent of AI the technology to create good summaries for large amounts of text is possible.

Some other challenges for forums are:
  1. Correcting useless thread titles. i.e. 'HELP ME NOW!!!' or 'Dumb question'.
  2. Optimal SEO meta tags.
  3. Useful thread tags.
  4. Correct thread prefix.
  5. Correct thread type. i.e. a Question posted as a Discussion Type.
  6. Making forum threads look better with images.
  7. Making unreadable posts readable. When users post broken English, chat speak, mobile t9 autocomplete suggests wrong words, ALL CAPS, no punctuation, no line breaks wall of text, no formatting, then it can make posts completely unreadable to others.
  8. Link to related content from other content types for better content discovery. For example if XFRM has a resource that addresses the topic in a thread.
These can be daunting tasks and many admins don't even bother because of the scale of fixing all that.
Some forum platforms like Discourse and Quora have already implemented some LLM solutions. For example:

Once an LLM understands the meaning of the thread, the LLM can create the following with the data:
  1. A thread summary. (widget)
  2. A better thread snippet.
  3. Suggest a better thread title.
  4. SEO meta tags: Meta title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords, etc.
  5. Thread tags.
  6. Select Thread prefix.
  7. Select Thread Type.
  8. Thread cover, caption and thumb. This would make forum content look much better.
  9. Making unreadable posts readable. (correct spelling mistakes)
  10. Display related content. (Widget to display related content from all content types)
And the same for all content types. (XFRM, XFMG, Add-ons)
Please consider to add LLM functionality to let AI / LLM suggest the above.

As there are costs for the use of AI / LLM, it would require various limits on when analysis takes place. For example generate x,y,z only after x posts have been made. Or add a budget for AI credits.
As LLM generated data can be erroneous, methods of correct are needed like community editing of summaries or admin view of new tags.
 
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AI / LLM's can be used to make threads and other content more useful and better organized. For better usability, SEO, content discovery and readability.

One of the challenges of using forums is reading through mega-threads with thousands of replies. Especially if high quality replies and useless comments are mixed. For this reasons there have been many requests for a summary feature over the years. Now with the advent of AI the technology to create good summaries for large amounts of text is possible.

Some other challenges for forums are:
  1. Correcting useless thread titles. i.e. 'HELP ME NOW!!!' or 'Dumb question'.
  2. Optimal SEO meta tags.
  3. Useful thread tags.
  4. Correct thread prefix.
  5. Correct thread type. i.e. a Question posted as a Discussion Type.
  6. Making forum threads look better with images.
  7. Making unreadable posts readable. When users post broken English, chat speak, mobile t9 autocomplete suggests wrong words, ALL CAPS, no punctuation, no line breaks wall of text, no formatting, then it can make posts completely unreadable to others.
  8. Link to related content from other content types for better content discovery. For example if XFRM has a resource that addresses the topic in a thread.
These can be daunting tasks and many admins don't even bother because of the scale of fixing all that.
Some forum platforms like Discourse and Quora have already implemented some LLM solutions. For example:

Once an LLM understands the meaning of the thread, the LLM can create the following with the data:
  1. A thread summary. (widget)
  2. A better thread snippet.
  3. Suggest a better thread title.
  4. SEO meta tags: Meta title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords, etc.
  5. Thread tags.
  6. Select Thread prefix.
  7. Select Thread Type.
  8. Thread cover, caption and thumb. This would make forum content look much better.
  9. Making unreadable posts readable. (correct spelling mistakes)
  10. Display related content. (Widget to display related content from all content types)
And the same for all content types. (XFRM, XFMG, Add-ons)
Please consider to add LLM functionality to let AI / LLM suggest the above.

As there are costs for the use of AI / LLM, it would require various limits on when analysis takes place. For example generate x,y,z only after x posts have been made. Or add a budget for AI credits.
As LLM generated data can be erroneous, methods of correct are needed like community editing of summaries or admin view of new tags.
I think I could imagine doing this. Doing an Copilot plugin for moderation anyway.
 
The first part of this idea that we wanted to work on was the AI Generated Summary. That is now available here:

We're working on other AI-related items as well.

I did go through to try and buy this on your website to test it on our site. BUt the checkout doesn;t work. Please drop me a DM if this is still in dev. We have our own AI system, so would want to link it to something different - but you have sorted some of the functionality we want.
 
I'm creating a list of people who are interested in the add-on. If there's enough interest (would 10 or 20 people be too optimistic?) I don't see why it can't be brought back online right away.

We want to use our own (in-house) AI that is tailored to agriculture - I hadn't quite worked out if that would be posisble, but I like the changes you had made at the Xenforo end. We also have manually tested running thread summaries after 100/500 posts and adding them to the thread using our AI Agent user. Users reacted well to this and it helped the conversation. I do like having the seperate widget though.

We are also running this at a user level when they get to 100 posts. For us we are most interested in the machinery they have and the way they farm - being an agricultural site. Being able to auto trigger this via the addon would save time.
 
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