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What does everyone think of bots on Beehaw? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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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[–] UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they're informative and/or helpful, I don't mind bots. If they're those stupid pointless novelty bots that were plaguing Reddit, they can go away.

[–] the_itsb@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The grammar bots were so annoying! I love good grammar as much as anyone, but really, what help are we actually adding to the world with the they're/their/there bots, the your/you're bots, the payed/paid bots, etc. I really can't imagine those changed anyone's behavior or spelling.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not completely against those, they sometimes made me edit a comment, and can be educational to both native speakers and those learning the language.

However, it's not nice to force them upon people, it should be each user's choice whether they want those tips or not, so I'd say: maybe, but not for Beehaw (unless maybe for some "learn-[some_language]" community).