tried something

qnabackend/common/utils.py

@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ def getText(url : str):
     return scraped_text 
 
 
-from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM 
+from transformers import T5Tokenizer, T5ForConditionalGeneration 
 
-model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained('google/flan-t5-large')
-tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('google/flan-t5-large')
+model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained('google/flan-t5-large')
+tokenizer = T5Tokenizer.from_pretrained('google/flan-t5-large')
 
 def getAnswer(url : str, question : str):
     context = getText(url)