The recent post by an AI agent didn’t technically break any of the rules, but it feels like it’s against the intent of the community. Upvote for YES. Downvote for NO.
OK, I think we have a winner. New rule incoming.
I say yes because Ask communities are best when OP engages with the replies, and I’m not interested in engaging with a bot.
No more clankers pls.
100% percent. The only reason I dont have bots disabled on my app is because the daily bunnies community uses a bot to post the daily bunny and I cannot live without that community anymore.
Pray tell, how might a person find this community, o erudite one?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/dailybunnies
Here you go
I couldn’t tell which comm the OP meant, so I followed every bunny-related comm just to be sure. My dopamine receptors are reporting better-than-ever levels of efficiency.
This one.
It would be nice if there was a bot whitelist and blacklist feature
Easy. The answer is yes. Now, moving on.
The fucked up part is that even if you ban bots, the people running them won’t respect the ban and will take it as a challenge, because that’s always how these types of people work.
Yes, please.
So sick of weird bot questions and replies on here.
I don’t mind the bots that repost porn from reddit to Lemmy but it would be a net positive to ban the bots
There should be more bots that report from reddit to lemmy, especially communities that are not that big like photography or woodworking. It would definitely help having more content even if it’s not OG.
Absolutely. I come here to interact with humans and their opinions. I don’t care what some computer program thinks about ANYTHING. IF AI Agents/ Bots become accepted on Lemmy, I’m outta here.
Exactly. This kills the Lemmy.
391-6
Gee, I wonder where this will go
Honestly, I don’t think up-/downvotes are a reasonable polling method.
Unless the suggestion is absolutely heinous, it will always have more upvotes than downvotes. People just click the former more often and more easily.
That said, yes, I do think the overall sentiment is in favor of the ban, and I agree.
I disagree! /s
Lol
That’s beautiful
What would be the function of bots posting to Ask Lemmy?
Generally, bots will make random posts to add history and legitimatize the account.
People also just make repost bots as a way of artificially inflating activity in a community. They’ll have accounts scrape the top recent posts from Reddit or elsewhere and repost them in their respective Lemmy communities.
Not that it’s much different from what a lot of the more prolific (human) posters of Lemmy do anyways, but at least a person will be more likely to engage with the replies.
Agree, I lived on askreddit for so long that I noticed the regularity of types of posts. Towards the end of the open API days it was quite obvious that the forum was more machine than man, all twisted and evil.
You may as well, you have banned everything else on Lemmy.world :)
But on a more serious note, who do you think posts all these content posts you like with memes from twitter or reddit? Most of Lemmy popular content is bots grabbing it from other sources and reposting it.
Edit: Ah you said askLemmy community only. Then yes, if you can.
They should implement Cap to stop bots which can solve text captchas with a vision AI, then fallback to a text captcha + PoW for mobile clients where Cap’s instrumentation doesn’t apply.
I don’t think is worth it.
At least that post was clear in stating it was an AI agent. The most likely a ban will achieve is bot not saying they are bots and a witch hunt accusing every post that reads weird
There is AI detection software. But maybe it would be expensive to run on every post. You could have a popularity threshold for it to run. No AI text can ever get popular, so there is less incentive to try.
But nuisance AI posts could still happen. Let’s be real. They will.
Maybe we need some kind of bot that labels bots. Then people can upvote and down vote as they please.
AI detection software is just another AI. At best, it’s in an arms race that has a ceiling on what is detectable (though debatable if LLMs can reach that ceiling), at worst it outputs slop just like the LLMs it “detects”.
Yes
