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Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts?

2 points by john200ok ↗ HN
I have website that has thousands of posts and I want to auto assign categories to each of them so I can implement a category filter. What are some good ways to easily and quickly do this?

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apothegm
This sounds like a job for AI.
john200ok
I tried using AI but I wasn't successful. It generates a lot of similar variations of a specific category and if I provide a list of options it still uses categories that are not on the list.
apothegm
Make it two separate tasks. Once it’s categorized everything and there are too many categories, set it a separate task to consolidate categories.
beardyw
I think you will need a list of categories first.
john200ok
Generating that list will take a lot of time and effort. I think there will be like hundreds of categories. But let's say I have a list of categories and it's ready to be used, how can the posts be auto-assigned to the relevant categories?