AI indeed doesn’t vape and has no personal experience, but that’s not its job either. What it does extremely well, however, is gather and organize experiences, thus giving us an effective and fast search tool.
According to surveys from recent years, people’s internet usage has significantly changed due to AI. Several studies have shown that a large portion of users now turn directly to AI instead of Google for certain topics because it is faster, more convenient, and immediately provides a summarized answer. Because of this, the classic “search” step is omitted more often, because AI saves the entire search process, thus reducing the use of Google and other search engines in certain areas.
At the same time, AI must be treated conditionally, because it can still hallucinate, meaning when it cannot find concrete information, it supplements it with its own—often erroneous—assumption. That is precisely why we continuously review Gilbert’s answers, and if it writes something foolish, we can intervene immediately.
Gilbert operates under fairly strict rules:
- if there is no reliable data for something, it prefers to say that it did not find reliable information,
- in all cases where it is not answering from its own knowledge base, it is obliged to cite a source,
- this guarantees that it passes on real, readable, verifiable information.
This is a lengthy and complex process, but as we refine it, we will have to intervene less often, which already shows clear progress. This is why we dared to make it available to answer publicly…
Mental health is the most important! 
Muting / ignoring is indeed very useful because it saves you from unnecessary stress, annoyance, and uninteresting content. On Vaperina, the filtering / notification options are quite diverse and flexible:
- topics can be muted,
- tags,
- categories,
- users,
- and there are even separate settings for chat.
At the same time, there is also the option that if you want to follow something with special attention, you can set the notification level for topics, tags, categories, chat channels to Following, or follow users so you are notified of all their posts.
So it is quite flexible, and everything is really in place so that you only see what you want and nothing that you don’t.