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GEN AI Platform has a major flaw: Doesn't return source data from AI Knowledge Base

In every AI tool I have used to create vectors, you can supply metadata to the vector, so when the vector search returns data you can use the metadata so you can accurately provide additional information to your AI users For example, if you have a RAG, you need to provide links to the information so users can go to the sources if they want more information. This is impossible with Digital Oceans new Gen AI platform. When the AI returns answers it never accurately says where the heck it got the information from. Even tagging data with appropriate links, the AI can’t supply the necessary source information because the platform does NOT provide any information as to what data was used to generate the AI response. However, obviously, the way the AI works is that it searches the vector database to find the data that will answer a query (that’s the K value). So like every other AI tool out there, the metadata associated with the returned data should be provided so we can accurately provide source information to the user. So for example, if we tag our data with URL’s for sources, the AI should return the URL’s from the data it used and we should be able to access that source information so that we can accurate provide our user with the source of the information.


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Bobby Iliev
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February 2, 2025

Hey there!

Thanks for the detailed feedback—I really appreciate you taking the time to share this. I can definitely see how having access to the source metadata would be important for accurate citations in a RAG setup.

I’ll make sure to share this internally with the team. In the meantime, I’d recommend submitting a support ticket here: https://www.digitalocean.com/support/ so the product team can track the request properly.

Let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help! 🚀

- Bobby

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