# Is the "AI" tag automatic? Can we limit it to discussions actually \*about\* AI? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 2, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533 "2025-04-02T17:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/21 "2025-04-02T23:23:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > OTOH, if the Discourse software team actually reads and act on what’s put in there we sure ought to keep it for that reason alone. IOW, because it’s useful to us from _their_ POV. The Discourse team does read it. I don’t know exactly how often, but they do read it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/22 "2025-04-02T23:26:30Z")
If I remember tomorrow, I’ll try a make a request. It would be useful. * * * * * * So the options are kill the automatic for AI completely or leave it as is. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/23 "2025-04-02T23:30:25Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > So the options are kill the automatic for AI completely or leave it as is. I would suggest killing it completely and hope that most posters starting AI-related threads will appropriately tag them, and if not, whatever mod happens to notice can manually add the tag, though I’m not suggesting that should be anyone’s job – I know you folks have plenty enough to do! I just think it’s probably better to have no tag than one which is very often misleading. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/24 "2025-04-02T23:34:53Z")
Agree w the esteemed pup. An absent tag is the norm. (Sigh.) A defective tag is a PITA. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/25 "2025-04-03T00:17:25Z")
I, also, think too few tags is better than too many. I’d remind that auto-tag. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/26 "2025-04-03T00:34:40Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’d remind that auto-tag. Remind it to think before it adds itself? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/27 "2025-04-03T00:36:21Z")
Someone should just make a Discourse AI that can auto-tag all posts based on their content. Then it’ll come here and wonder if it should tag this post as AI or just move it to Site Feedback… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/28 "2025-04-03T00:44:31Z")
So for now at least, it is turned off. We’ll see how that goes. Less mis-tags is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/29 "2025-04-03T00:50:04Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/30 "2025-04-03T11:51:54Z")
Not to be all meta, but this thread shouldn’t really have the “ai” tag, since the thread is about the tag, not about AI. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/31 "2025-04-03T11:53:08Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > this thread shouldn’t really have the “ai” tag I removed it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/32 "2025-04-03T11:58:16Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > If I remember tomorrow, I’ll try a make a request. It would be useful. Asked over on the Discourse Board: > **[Admin guide to tags in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-guide-to-tags-in-discourse/121041/36?u=what_exit)** > > For the Automatically tag topics if the first post contains a specific word; is it somehow possible to set some words to only check the Title? If not, could this functionality be added? ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/33 "2025-07-21T01:43:18Z")
If we’re going to keep an “AI” tag, it might be nice to understand how broad that term actually is. On this board, I typically see it only in the context of LLMs lately, when in reality we use it as a wrapper for all of data science methodologies. Netflix recommendation engine? AI. Spam filtering? AI. Automated customer segmentation? AI. Simple clustering of objects? AI. In the common methodology, Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning, which is a subset of AI. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/34 "2025-07-21T03:08:11Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > In the common methodology, Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning, which is a subset of AI. Kind of a tough hill to climb when there are people (even here) that insist that anything short of literal C-3PO-level sentience “isn’t AI”. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/35 "2025-07-21T03:11:02Z")
I wouldn’t waste any time sweating the AI tag. It is a low priority tag. I think I mentioned something like that above. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/36 "2025-07-21T03:30:45Z")
Can we change the ai tag to artificial intelligence–since when you do a search for ai it returns nothing (tag is too short)? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/37 "2025-07-21T03:39:56Z")
I did see that error, you’re probably better off going to the hamburger menu in the top right of most browsers, click on the shortcut current tags, and selecting AI from the entire list. Once you’ve done it, you can always bookmark it, or even easier, you can add AI to your “Tags” list on the bottom of the same menu using the pencil icon. I was going to add an image of how it would look/where to find the pencil icon but Imgur is down right now, I’ll try to add one later. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/38 "2025-07-21T07:19:54Z")
#ai also takes you there.click the #ai in your edit preview window. In the advance search, there is a place to include a tag. The search bar should look like this: image tags:ai * * * * * * So click the Search button 🔍 In this search box, click the _sliders_ button on the far right. Click ▶ Advanced filters Include some search words, from your example I’m using _solar_ _Truck_. In **Posted By** , enter the name of the poster Include a **date range** if possible to narrow it down. I selected **Posted** _after_ & _01/01/2020_ Below _I read_ is a pull down box that says _any_, pull down and select _I created_ or _are the very first post_ * * * * * * All this should narrow it down a lot. This gets no results as Truck apparently wasn’t in the thread, but I removed _Truck_ and got only 4 hits including this thread of course. [What I used in the end](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=solar%20%20%40Sigene%20after%3A2020-01-01%20in%3Afirst): solar @Sigene after:2020-01-01 in:first * * * * * * @me is a shorthand in searches for @yourusername, a way to avoid using advance search. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533/39 "2025-07-21T18:29:39Z")
Ah Imgur is back up, this is what it looks like for me (Chrome, Windows 11, Dark (NOT Straightdope Dark) Theme. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/istEmbt.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/istEmbt) If you hover over the area I’ve added the red pointer too, that’ll cause the pencil icon to appear, which will allow you to edit which tags are on your short list for easy access, and will give you a nice blue circle for activity in said tag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-ai-tag-automatic-can-we-limit-it-to-discussions-actually-about-ai/1016533.md?page=1)