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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] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think some comment bots are nice, like the TLDR / summarization bot, reminder bot, youtube piped links, maybe one that replaces an amp link with the original? But these bots should be labeled as bots in settings so users have the option to toggle off seeing them.

I don't like having bots post posts though, I've seen some in other instances and there's not much discussion happening in the comments a lot of the time.

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

I just saw a summarization bot on here make a summary that was longer than the post. Kind of silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I saw one that pretty much missed the point of the article. Pre-digested pabulum. We should be reading the frickin’ article ourselves before we comment.

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

The summary bot has now been disabled as per the decision of Beehaw. Contact your favorite community mods if you'd like to change that.