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

  •  millie   ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure someone’s got some bots on Lemmy that are actually decent, but I haven’t seen them yet. The bots I’ve seen have just been spamming copies of reddit posts or other articles. I block them, and I usually block the communities they spam.