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

  • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Personally - I think any bot that could be straight Lemmy functionality shouldn’t exist but that said, I think good ground rules would be :

    • Bots should be clearly prompted by a command
    • Bots should not act in a community without mods from that community being contacted first
    • Bots should minimize the space they take with their messages (Example: Info on how to contact its creator should be in the bot bio rather than in every message)
    • Bots should say who made/hosts it
    • Enfield [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Do spoiler foldouts maintain their functionality across UIs, either directly or in essence (eg. popup instead)?

      Part of me wishes that Lemmy also had spoilers that reveal in place, but foldout spoilers have some functionality that makes me appreciate having both on hand. I’d bet bots could benefit from using that to minimize visual space if we go through with it.