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| Dec 4, 2025 at 8:56 | comment | added | SPArcheon | no, I meant that the LLM training isn't limited to SO and a few more tech sites - it has info about any question on the network, including non tech sites like Anime. It quoted text from an Anime question so those are indeed in the training set. As for the "answer any question" - I think that in some of the older experiments the bot configuration has some basic config to try to prevent question outside SO scope to be answered. It seems that was removed, probably because the long period plan is to enable the tool on all the network. | |
| Dec 4, 2025 at 7:24 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @ꓢPArcheon: yes, but then again, LLMs will inherently "answer any question" and rarely say that they have no idea, which they should do far more often. If all AI Assist finds on a topic is two questions that are almost ten years old and have zero upvotes in a system that has always relied crucially on voting, then in my book it should preface its answer with a disclaimer that it did not find any sources that the community considered authoritative. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 19:07 | comment | added | SPArcheon | if it can be of any consolation, the bot is perfectly able to answer question about any topic on the network. I have personally tested it can reference content from Arqade and Anime&Manga for example. Now, getting actual correct answers is another issue itself, and I kinda proven that the bot does not understand what questions it shouls filter out and more importantly that the filter should come BEFORE sending the results to the users... | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 18:51 | history | edited | V2BlastStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2025 at 17:01 | history | answered | Stephan Kolassa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |