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What does everyone think of bots on Beehaw? (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet to c/chat

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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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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bots like gramma and spelling bots should just gtfo. Every bot should be a genuine postitive improvement to a community or otherwise they shouldn't exist.

[–] Evergreen5970 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see corrections to my grammar or spelling as positive ;-;

[–] Gaywallet 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a lot of how I interpret them is how they are written. On Reddit there's a lot of GOTCHA style bots which insult the user for not knowing "perfect" grammar. However, I've seen some bots which actually try to explain and help out the user and couch their language in a way where it's clearly meant to be helpful, especially to English as a second language learners, and I think there's a huge gulf of acceptability between the two.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tend to agree but that doesn't mean we should see bots analysing every post and comment looking for these things either. Lemmy isn't a school essay or a formal letter where these thing truly matter.

Personally, I come here to relax and discuss topics of interest, not be nitpicked over the posts and comments I make.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

A platform like Lemmy is about communicating in a relaxed non-formal way with others. How you achieve that is fine and spelling mistakes etc don't really matter. At the very least, such a bot should only be opt-in if you like it. Otherwise, leave the nitpicking to the teachers.

[–] itsgallus 2 points 1 year ago

Realistically, spell-checking should happen at the comment authoring stage anyway. Given I don't know how the Lemmy code works at all, I imagine checking for "they're/their", "would of/could of" &c. could be an optional UI feature rather than a bot.