I would think that Audiogon was one of the sources that ChatGPT was trained on. The dataset it was trained on was absolutely enormous. Chat GPT does a pretty good job on questions like “what are the sound characteristics of say McIntosh equipment. When you ask questions like what are the best sounding DACs and what are the sound characteristics, in general it does well, but you have to verify. It may very often pick streaming DACs or some odd items that are not quite in the category.
Bard / Gemni can be far less useful. The other week on Sunday I asked if the stock market was open tomorrow (it was not)… it gave a long explanation… and was wrong! It said it was open.
So, the training set matters, and verification is required.
I can’t imagine the forum making much money… so it would be hard to see the huge investment needed to implement AI likely. But it would be fun.