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submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing.... and it worked!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Lemmy bots are most certainly a thing. In fact i run one [email protected]

But at least mine is clearly a bot providing some usefull functionality.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Changing the meaning of what is being summarized is not useful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

So far there is 1 documented case of it changing meaning of original text from hundreds. Thats a <1% error rate.