rob299@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel people are just misunderstanding, I don’t see why there’s so much backlash, let me explain my thoughts process in more detail.
my idea was actually more like this.
sometimes a bot might post an article, sometimes a real person. if the article is relavent, then real people might join in to discuss the article, which on this community this happens.
You’re saying a bot can pose a discussion prompt (taken from some rss feed or whatever), a totally reasonable (if perhaps not ideal) observation.
A lot of the people in this thread seem to be assuming you’re talking about GPT or whatever making up threads whole-cloth.
I did say ai. I said
“ai, but bot.” People in this thread were actually legitly saying their stance on bots. and also on ai. which, if I’m wrong then i’m wrong, I accept the critisism. personally this post could be a meme at this point. 27 downvotes, that’s crazy on Lemmy. I hadn’t seen a post on this communitywith as many, not sure if that’s a record or not. for this community.
For what it's worth, even though I don't agree with you, I think this is an interesting post and discussion, so I've upvoted it. Thank you.
I am totally ok with disagreements. I think people like to learn from others, even when they might just simply be wrong at times in the public opinion.
stifle867@programming.dev 1 year ago
The backlash is because people do not want bots to overrun and kill our communities because we recognise that is exactly what they do. Even if a bot were to post something interesting it is reducing the opportunity for a human to post the same thing. This reduces engagement in the long run. Communities are extremely dependant on posters, not just commenters. You could have a bot post an interesting article that stirs a lot of discussion, but in the long run fewer people will be coming back as there is no incentive to put any work in.
Look what’s happened to Facebook for example. Most of the feed got overrun by generated content instead of user posts. Now who seriously engages with Facebook other than just endlessly scrolling and your odd person who overshares every intimate detail.