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What does everyone think of bots on Beehaw? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How do you all feel about bots?

I've seen a gpt powered summarization bot pop up recently. Do you find this useful? Do you hate this?

Do you think bots serve any useful purposes on this website or do you think we should ban all bots? Should we have a set of rules for how bots should interact - only when called, needing to explicitly call out they are a bot on their profile, etc?

I'd love to hear your thoughts

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

One of the things I like about Beehaw is the lack of bot posts in every thread. Personally I think all bots should be banned because it eliminates some unwanted spam, but a good compromise for me is that bots be explicitly labeled, and can only respond to a trigger command. Nothing that auto posts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you think all bots should be banned, then good news! On Lemmy, bot accounts are (should be) labeled as a bot, and in your profile settings you can disable seeing posts by bots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a very good setting. Thanks! My only other concern is unlabeled bot accounts but I don't know if that's a rampant issue or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think it's important to have a "bots must be marked as bots" rule.

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