Discourse, the software package I use to run The Sizzle's forums, my personal blog and the communities of 3 other groups, got a new major update overnight. Version 3.1 of Discourse's main feature is a new AI/LLM plugin that can summarise threads, find related discussions, help users compose posts, translate different languages and assist in moderation that can "potentially toxic content for review and detect the use of NSFW images in posts", as well as "automatically classify the sentiment and emotion score of every new post". I won't use it on any forums I run as I don't trust the AI to do a good enough job on the edge cases, but I can see why Discourse would provide these features, particularly for bigger, less personal communities.
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