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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] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also vote for these rules!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I agree - these seem to me like very common-sense rules.

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