@crazycells Interesting concept, and certainly one that warrants further exploration as it could extend the reach of any forum well beyond what search engines can offer.
I know that someone in the NodeBB community has already begun something along these lines in the form of ChatGPT moderation, which looks good but isn’t free in the sense that it needs “credits” to work
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17198/chatgpt-moderation?_=1699722431266
From recollection, a pro subscription to GPT4 costs $20/month - and is has caps, such as 50 queries max per 4 hours, and many are questioning if this fee make the product worth it or not - it’s not something I’d specifically use in terms of a subscription per month - at least, not enough to warrant it’s cost.
For the training part, I guess that ChatGPT would have to crawl your website rather like an indexing service does. However, we already have search capabilities in NodeBB and ChatGPT would effectively be another - the question here is do we really need it?