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

  • @NightOwl
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    711 months ago

    I like the bot that provides a piped link for YouTube.

    • Lionir [he/him]
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      411 months ago

      I actually kinda really dislike that one, I don’t understand why it would be used rather than a link redirector extension in your browser.

      • Scary le Poo
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        311 months ago

        It’s really useful. Especially for resharing with others outside of Lemmy.

      • @NightOwl
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        211 months ago

        It’s useful for mobile.

          • @NightOwl
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            211 months ago

            I still like it when viewing it on iOS. Link is there for those who need it.

    • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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      311 months ago

      I feel similarly for that Reddit bot that strips Amp links and posts a link explaining why Google’s amp links are terrible for the Internet.