What benefits you gained from AI

[Dragapult]

Mainly summaries of long articles. Or to help rewrite some of my text.

 

[Suzanne O]

Have seen in some forums and on social media that it's been used as a reporting structure. It's terrible and goes too far.
Also have seen idiots misuse it to abuse admins on forums they post on.
So no thanks. AI is a load of rubbish.

 

[eva2000]

AI is just a tool. Depends on how it's being used. For me,

1. AI has helped me learn more about AI itself. Like learning what the Minions Protocol is and what Chain of Draft techniques do to optimise token usage for AI reasoning LLM models compared to Chain Of Thought methods and how to integrate Microsoft LLMLingua prompt token compression method to reduce prompt token size
2. It saved me a lot of time for various tasks.
3. It allowed me to improve a lot of my existing tools and build new ones, like my or-cli.py script that allows me to interface and use various cloud-based and local self-hosted AI LLM models https://github.com/centminmod/or-cli

Using or-cli.py for text summarization for Xenforo thread

python or-cli.py --webpage https://xenforo.com/community/threads/featured-content-improvements.229454/ | python or-cli.py -p "Summarize the discussed topics for the Xenforo forum discussion thread. Provide a detailed and accurate summary. Do not introduce any information, opinions, or interpretations that are not present in the original text. Write the summary in a neutral, conversational tone that reflects the style of the original content. Avoid editorializing or drawing conclusions beyond what is explicitly stated" -t --compress --temperature 0.5 --compress-rate 0.75

----- Assistant Response -----
The XenForo 2.4 update includes several improvements to the "Featured Content" feature, including:

* Automatic Feature Expiry:
* Users can now set an "Unfeature after" duration (in days) for both new and existing featured content through the "Customize" section.
* An option group in the admin control panel allows setting a default feature length, which will automatically unfeature newly featured content after the specified number of days.
* Global Controls and Permissions:
* The ability to control the number of "Features per page" on the featured content list, with a character limit for feature snippets.
* A new permission to control which users can view the featured content list.
* Advertising Positions:
* New advertising positions have been added:
* Featured content: Above feature list
* Featured content: Below feature
* Featured content: Below feature list
* Widget Context and Display:
* Widgets can now display featured content from child forums.
* For widgets displaying mixed-content lists, the content type prefix is no longer displayed for featured threads (or trending content) when filtered to show only a specific content type.
* Activity Summary Support:
* A new "Latest featured content" section can be configured and added to activity summary emails.
* Full REST API Support:
* Full REST API support for managing featured content, including creating, viewing, updating, and deleting featured content.
* Featured Content List Improvements:
* The carousel view now shows a small version of the featured image instead of the author's avatar.
* A member filter has been added to the featured content list, allowing users to see all featured content by a specified user.

The discussion thread also includes feedback and suggestions from users, including:

• Suggestions for improvements to the display of images/thumbnails in the featured content list.
• A discussion about the use of trending content and how it relates to the featured content feature.
• Requests for features such as the ability to use the image from a thread's cover image for featured content.
• A desire for tools to rename and organize the content.
• A discussion about the differences between manual and algorithmic content curation.
• A discussion about the need for clarity and understanding of the new features.
• A discussion about the relationship between the new features and existing add-ons.

----- Generation Stats -----
Model Used: google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05:free
Provider Name: Google
Generation Time: 2136 ms
Prompt Tokens: 46848
Completion Tokens: 510
Total Tokens: 47358
Total Cost: $0.00000000
Usage: 0
Latency: 1075 ms
Native Tokens Prompt: 51354
Native Tokens Completion: 532
Native Tokens Reasoning: 0
Native Tokens Total: 51886
Cache Discount: None
Temperature: 0.5
Top P: 1.0
Seed: None
Max Tokens: None
Compress: True
Compress Rate (Setting): 0.75
Original Tokens (LLMLingua-2): 45167
Compressed Tokens (LLMLingua-2): 46711
Compression Rate (LLMLingua-2): 1.0x
Saving (LLMLingua-2): -3.418%
LLMLingua-2 max_batch_size: 400
LLMLingua-2 max_force_token: 10000

 

[AjayJunkies]

Nothing at all. It's the latest fad.

There are fads, and then there are transformative changes that will change society. I think society as a whole is trying to figure out how to incorporate AI in different and useful ways, but the fact that everyone is trying to figure it out should be a sign of how everyone realizes how impactful AI can be in ways that we are still exploring.

I've used AI in my real world job to summarize work meetings, given me a tasklist based on recording, and to help draft the initial version of a memo. These used to take me hours (or more realistically, never even did!), which I can now do in seconds. My productivity has gone up tremendously and I find myself reaching for Microsoft Copilot more and more.

THere is a natural inclination for forum owners who think that forums - a 20 year old technology - is somehow the best and highest platform for everything. That's wrong. We should embrace social media, we should embrace AI, we should keep learning and iterating and embracing the winds of change. Because if we don't, society will.

 

[StarArmy]

Also, AI makes pretty decent music these days. I've been making background tracks for my RPG nights using it.

 

[Suzanne O]

AI is full of trash. You see it all over the place and it's a real pain in the bum

 

[MentaL]

Also, AI makes pretty decent music these days. I've been making background tracks for my RPG nights using it.

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What did you use?

 

[StarArmy]

What did you use?

Suno!

 

[Rusty Snippets]

I mainly use it as a replacement for search engines. Grok is incredible nowdays.

 

[StarArmy]

I mainly use it as a replacement for search engines. Grok is incredible nowdays.

That's what X wants you do, so they can keep you on X and be the one serving ads to you. But I think the best sites on the web are lovingly-crafted independent websites, such as forums and indie websites. If you're getting info from an AI or staying in the walled gardens of mega social media instead of visiting these good sites of the web, I think you're doing yourself and webmasters a disservice.

At the same time, traditional search engines like Google are doing the same thing by replacing search results with AI because they, too, want to keep you in their walled garden instead of sending you to the sites they index.

It seems to me that if everyone started using AI as search (despite the fact that GPT style AIs kind of BS their answers and sometimes tell people completely bogus things), the forums we run could all become ghost towns as the top 0.01% of websites (the giants like Youtube) suck up all the attention, revenue, and so on, and leave nothing for anyone else.

I think we need to be cautious about rushing to give bots control of what information we discover, especially when their operators are fueled by pure greed.

 

[RobinHood]

I've heard some great Suno stuff in the past, but only got around to playing with it tonight, pretty incredible!

I whipped this up, not perfectly accurate as I'd have to pay to edit the lyrics, but still pretty nuts for a free service and prompt that was restricted to only 200 characters!