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Hello fellow gliders, help me out with advise and/or direction. My app is built, and I have attempted to integrate AI. It is not quite working as I thought it should. Can someone help with this? Can someone help me take a look to see what I am doing wrong? I will appreciate a little time to talk about where I am stuck and then we see if this is something we can plan a few sessions for. This is a school/research project for me so I do not have the budget to hire the experts for the prices as listed but I can come up with a little something if we agree. Please let me know if anyone can help with this. Thanks a lot.

Robert, Nathan, Jesus, Miguel…etc. I see you all :grin:

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What is AI for?

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The AI will analyze text for certain parameters and generate scores. Does that help?

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Yes, now is clear what you need :slight_smile:

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Do you need AI to do it? can you give example of text, and how the score is generate?

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You are probably using the Generate Text or Text to Texts Glide AI built-in actions in the workflow editor.

If this is the case, they work as follows:

An input → Your instructions via a prompt → An output (or result)

If you are not getting the output you wish for, it could be that you need to refine the input or your instructions or both.

Being weary of hiding any sensitive information, would you want to share screenshots with us so we can try to assist you further?

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Yes, please see below. Thanks.

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Yes, of course, Nathan and thanks for your input. Please see below:
1-How should my database be configured if I am crawling the net for articles? As you can see from its response, the AI cannot access the content I want via links and I can’t imagine that I will have to download every document I need to analyze. Any suggestions?
Here is the output I get:
“I’m sorry, but I cannot access external content such as the link provided. If you could provide me with the information from the article, I would be more than happy to help you with the analysis.”

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2-Secondly, even when I have tried to give it actual documents (not via links), it has not returned correct results. Example: 2/5 + 3/5=5/10. The app calculates this correctly when I do the entries manually.
But when I let the AI calculate, it returns same values for all entries. Example instead of the 2 and 3 above, it will return 2 in both cases or 3 in both cases, repeating values instead of doing independent analysis in each case. Is this clear? Here is where I am unsure of how to fix it.

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Glide AI cannot directly analyze the contents of a link to a news article, because:

  • It doesn’t have built-in access to external URLs or web scraping.
  • It can only analyze text already present in your app (such as from a cell in a Google Sheet or a user input field).

You can try fetching the article if you know the API.
You’re getting the wrong score because it’s based on incorrect data—it’s analyzing the URL, not the article.
But I’m not an expert on Glide AI—just guessing a logical explanation. :wink:

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Use the Get Webpage Source column to fetch the content from the URL, and then pass that to the AI column.

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Hmmmm! Very interesting…no wonder I am STUCK! I have been agonizing over this a while now! Thanks.

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Thank you, Darren. I will try that.

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