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

  •  Ignacio [he/him]   ( @Ignacio@beehaw.org ) 
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    11 months ago

    If we accept bots, I prefer those that can be summoned by the user, as it happens on Discord. If we accept bots either summoned or not by the user, they must be identified as such on their profiles.

    But in no way I’ll accept bots that pretend to be a human user or that can interact in the same way a human user can, neither commenting nor posting nor voting.