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by devel12 1199 days ago
>Look up similar posts based on the question and summarize the answer

They are matching the query with the document embeddings and summarizing the top few matches.

I'm guessing, only the summarization step makes use of ChatGPT. Calling it a chatbot is slightly misleading. It's more of a question answering system over external documents.