How answers are made, and how to check one
In plain steps: how your question is looked up in the sermons, what the AI model is given, why every point has a citation, and how to check or report an answer.
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The assistant is an AI model that writes from the sermons and from nothing else. Here is what happens between your question and the answer, so you know what to trust and how to check it.
From your question to the answer
- Your question is read. A follow-up is restated so that it stands on its own, and a question on a new subject is searched as a first question.
- It is put into other words, the way the sermons might put it, so that a passage worded differently can still be found.
- The sermon texts are searched two ways, by meaning and by words. They are the texts of the language you write in: French for French, English for English or any other language, and the published sermons for Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.
- The best passages, each with its sermon, date and paragraph, are handed to an AI model.
- The model writes the answer using only those passages and cites each point. It opens with his own words that answer you.
- Each citation is checked against the sermon's real paragraph numbers, so it points at a paragraph that exists.
What it will not do
- Add anything from outside the sermons: no outside knowledge, no opinion of its own, no advice, no verdict.
- Join two passages into a claim neither one makes, or set one against another with a "but" of its own.
- Say that he never said something. It sees some passages, not all his sermons, so when nothing fits it says it found no passage that clearly answers, or it gives the closest passages and says that they are the closest.
Check an answer
The passages are his words, taken from the sermon texts on the site. The wording that joins them is written by an AI model, and like any AI it can make mistakes, and the foot of the Sources says so: "Like any AI, it can make mistakes." It may choose a passage that does not quite fit, or miss one that does. That is why every point has a citation.
- Tap a citation in the answer.
- Read the passage and the paragraphs around it.
- Tap Open the sermon to read it at that paragraph, in its own setting.
Tell us an answer was wrong
Web
- Under the answer, tap the thumbs-down button, Not helpful.
- A box opens: Tell us what was missing. Write what was wrong.
- Tap Send, or Close to leave without a comment.
App
- Under the answer, tap the thumbs-down button, Not helpful.
- A sheet opens: Tell us what was missing. Write what was wrong.
- Tap Send, or Close to leave without a comment.
Your tap is counted as soon as you press it, even if you send no comment. Helpful answer, the thumbs-up, tells us what worked. Now and then, after an answer, you are asked Did you find what you were looking for? with Yes and Not really.
For a mistake in a sermon's text rather than in an answer, write to us with the sermon and the paragraph.
Does it use anything from outside the sermons?
No. The AI model is given only the passages found, and told to answer from them alone.
Whose words am I reading?
The quotations are his, from the sermon texts. The few words that join and introduce them are written by an AI model, which is told to add no opinion and no conclusion.
Why did it say it found nothing?
No passage in the sermons clearly answered your question, or your words matched none. That does not mean he never spoke about it. Better questions shows how to try again.
Is my question sent anywhere?
To write an answer, your question and the conversation it belongs to are sent to an AI model, without your name or email address. See Privacy.
How many questions can I ask?
A few each day without an account, and more with a confirmed account. Daily limits says what happens when you reach it.
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- Sources and follow-up questionsOpen the sermon passages behind an answer, move between answers, and ask a follow-up that narrows the answer or starts a new subject.
- Daily limits on questions and readingWhat you see when the day’s allowance of questions or sermon openings is used, how a confirmed account helps, and what to do. Nothing you keep is lost.