Can't get the AI to answer any of my questions.

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I installed privateGPT yesterday, and after a couple hurdles I believe I have it installed properly and running on my Windows machine.

I can view the UI on localhost:8001, and I can upload documents successfully.

At first I tried copy-pasting some wikipedia pages into a text file and uploading it with the UI. This worked, but when I started trying to ask about information on the data it had ingested, it just spit out a random blurb from the text. No matter what I ask it, it repeats the same thing.

when did world war 2 start?

system: Context information is below.
Eagle Against the Sun may be the
best single-volume survey of the Pacific war yet written.
The historical literature on Pearl Harbor and the first six months of
the war in the Pacific is voluminous—so vast that readers must beespecially careful in their selections. Perhaps the best picture of life in the prewar army is found in James Jones’ fictional From Here to
Eternity (1985). The subject of Pearl Harbor has produced countless
pages of description and analysis, but much is of interest only to pro-fessional historians and specialists in the subject. Two books of spe-cial value to the general reader are Walter Lord’ s Day of Infamy
(1957) and Gordon Prange’ s At Dawn We Slept (1982). Day of In-
famy begins in the predawn hours and details the fascinating, dra-
matic events of the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

The book tells thestories of squad and platoon fights with holed-up Japanese on is-lands no more than 250 yards wide. There are no generals or colonels here, no high-level planning or strategy. This is the story ofground combat from the vantage point of the individual infantry-
man, and, like MacDonald’ s Company Commander, the work is a
testimony to the determination and heroism of the individual GI.
48Note: The publication dates are shown for the most recent editions listed in Books in
Print. Many of these books were originally published years earlier.
user: when did world war 2 start?
assistant:

I can ask it anything and it will always respond with the same blurb.

[Seeders]

Ok Iván Martínez in the discord helped me out.

The problem was my PGPT_PROFILES environment variable was not set properly.

To fix, I needed to make sure I was in a command window, not a powershell.

Then enter

set PGPT_PROFILES=local

To verify, run

set PGPT_PROFILES

and you should see the output

PGPT_PROFILES=local

From there you can

make run