most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up. I mean- am I wrong here?thoughts? opinions?
most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up. I mean- am I wrong here?thoughts? opinions?
Going into a community expecting human interaction and instead finding nothing but bots is like joining a game server only to find out that it’s 18/20 bots. I think it sucks and it’s not what I want. Frankly, if I wanted to talk to AI chat bots (and I really don’t) there is already no shortage of places to do that.
I do worry a little bit that one day the internet will be so full of AI-generated garbage (words, images, music, etc.) that it will lose most of its value and utility to actual human beings. Centralized corporate social media already has a massive problems with bots and sockpuppets, and technology only seems to be moving in a direction that will make that problem worse. I’m sure the corporate parts of the internet at large will become majority bots sometime in my lifetime, maybe even in just a few years.
So, whether it’s Mastodon, Peertube, Kbin or whatever, I genuinely think and hope that the Fediverse represents a small opportunity to keep mostly human communities alive and thriving, and so I hope that bots are used rarely and transparently, if at all.
I get that standpoint, if that’s all you get but on this community, you get bots and also real users here that also creat posts, combine the two then factor in the conversations that form in the comments.
By getting a bot to automatically post articles (or worse, comments) you’re decreasing the need/opportunity for human beings to post, which makes the entire website less engaging on an individual level.
Sure there might be more “content”, but less human-to-human interaction. And personally I feel that genuine human-to-human interaction is only going to become more important with the propagation of mediocre AI generated content. Even thinking in terms of “supply and demand”, unlimited bot-created content has very little value compared to increasingly rare human-to-human interaction.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d rather a sub/mag be totally empty than full of AI-generated bot content, because even though it’s not ideal it at least gives people like you and me the opportunity to meaningfully participate.
absolutely, so lets say for instance, a bot posts an article, what stops people from discussing that tech news arcticle in the comments, and a bot might not get every piece of news, so users can then creat posts to fill in those blanks. I guess an argument could be made that less people would make posts, but then if there are no bots at all, there that chance that at some point that people just stop using Lemmy and go back to tradition social platforms because they feel there isn’t as much content.
so when you look at it on both sides; bots, or no bots, both have their potential bad sides. but also potential benefits.