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What does everyone think of bots on Beehaw? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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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[–] star_nova@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] Dave 9 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] star_nova@beehaw.org 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.

[–] Dave 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Second this, for Beehaw.

Users can already follow any community from another instance with autoposting bots. With the right interface, users can even merge posts from no-bot and yes-bot communities to create their own customized experience.