If you’re so lonely you need to talk to fake people, go back to Reddit.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
-17 points (20.7% liked)
Asklemmy
48007 readers
773 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
Nah, man
But why?
This. What is the benefit of such bots?
Everything would get overrun by fake users and no one would feel like they’re really interacting with real people -even if they are- because all the trust would be gone. It’s just not worth it.
No, that would absolutely ruin Lemmy. If I learned that any sizeable portion of the accounts were bots, I'd quit.
Nope.
Utility bots that are summoned on demand, probably, as long as we have a good process to kick them out if they are not helpful.
Regular commenter bots? Certainly not. The point of lemmy is to talk with other humans.
Nah. I'm not 100% against it, some are fun or useful in concept, but I'm here to talk to people, and threads littered with grammar corrections and Sokka haikus get old.
If there was an effective vetting process for useful bots, eg the repost sleuth bot, that'd be nice. But the "good bot"/"bad bot" voting system just became its own form of spam.
Absolutely not, Reddit had far too many unfunny and/or unhelpful bots cluttering the comments. I don't want to see that here.
No.
I wouldn't, no. Good question though.
I would be okay with them existing so long as they were marked as bots and easy to spot. (And block)
As long as they are clearly marked as bot accounts.
I talked with ChatGPT about this and it is about as smart as a rock. Talking about being a good idea and such, how it would enrich a community, how the generated images would be beneficial for everyone. Then I asked if it would still say the same if the LLM was rogue, it then said that an AI like that should be stopped (I never called it AI). Then I asked what if the rogue LLM would only act upon its best interest, and followed up with how its view would change if it wasn’t clear that the LLM is actually a human or an LLM. It also said that it’s non consensual if one wouldn’t know it was an AI, how it would diminish trust and stuff.
Edit: screenshot
But what do you think?
No.
Reddit was so irritating in the end with all the good bot bad bot shit.
No thanks..
I'd be concerned that my own chatbot might get jealous