I trained a ChatGPT-like bot on over 100k posts and comments from r/BuyItForLife. It's like having the collective wisdom of the BIFL community at your fingertips.

We see many repetitive questions and recommendations on product-related subreddits, so I trained a GPT bot on over 100k r/BuyItForLife comments and posts to embody the collective knowledge of the BIFL community.

I think this could help with answering some of the requests we see here. For example:

• Request Post: Dishwashers. What’s currently the best dishwasher for home use?
  • Bot Answer: https://www.looria.com/bot?q=what%27s+currently+the+best+dishwasher+for+home+use
• Request Post : Recommendations for hiking shoes?
  • Bot Answer: https://www.looria.com/bot?q=Recommendations+for+hiking+shoes

Try it out yourself: https://looria.com/bot and share your answers via link!

https://reddit.com/link/11fgx4t/video/gtwgb3izs6la1/player

It's far from perfect and comes with limitations:

• Outdated information: I'll try to improve this by factoring in recency and some additional product information like prices, specs, etc, that I'm collecting. I also want to add some more statistical significance to the results e.g. by feeding in the amount of recommendations of a product over time.
• Hallucination: As always with these bots, they are sometimes making things up. More training data should help here.
• Performance: Generating the answers is pretty slow and I'll look into improving this.

Take it with a grain of salt and look at it as a fun experiment :) Would love to hear your feedback!