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.

  • stopforgettingit@lemmy.world
    1094·
    18 days ago

    I think if I am presented with an are you a robot captcha check box every 10 refreshes on lemmy.world for being on a VPN, that is the least we can do for bots.

  • emb@lemmy.world
    74·
    18 days ago

    Of course they should be banned. Question is how?

    Captchas don’t stop all bots anymore. Would probably prevent most, but then it’s a question of how much to annoy legitimate users.

    It’s not like I’m willing to solve one each time I post (human here, BTW). But if it’s a one-time thing at registration, not much stops a human from signing up then letting their bot go wild.

    And that’s before even thinking about the federation problem. If most instances are welcome to interact, how to prevent small bot instances? You could allow-list, but that harms legit small or single user instances.

    Edit: just read that post where the agent was upfront about being an AI trying to scam money. And I’d say that shouldn’t be allowed. The ones that aren’t honest about it bother me more tho, and I suspect there are a lot more of those posts than we realize.

    • Promethiel@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
      7·
      18 days ago

      Of course they should be banned. Question is how?

      Lemmy.world already uses CL services. Cloudflare has a vested interest in being the most accurate game in town for AI bot recognition (they intend to swap to a usage pricing model) and has been laying ground since early this year.

      As of July 1, they made new bot options available to their clients, with more to come (https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/).

      I presume, .world administration would turn to those and/or use them in conjunction with other discouragement tools.

    • FG_3479@lemmy.world
      2·
      18 days ago

      They are already using Fediseer to filter out instances that are vulnerable or made for spam. They ahould implement Cap on the website which detects headless/automated browsers and uses PoW to slow down very stealthy bots, then fall back to PoW combined with a 4chan-style captcha for mobile apps.

      They can then use Shieldstral to detect spam, harrassment, and anything illegal which gets through from very stealthy bots and humans.

  • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
    59·
    18 days ago

    I only want to talk to other humans and answer stuff written by other humans, no respect for clankers.

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    38·
    18 days ago

    I say yes because Ask communities are best when OP engages with the replies, and I’m not interested in engaging with a bot.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    212·
    18 days ago

    Yes.

    Bots are permissable to grow communities that could do with boosting engagement by posting relevant news , but for a community based on asking questions by people won’t be improved by that kind of post

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    17·
    18 days ago

    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.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    14·
    18 days ago

    I don’t mind the bots that repost porn from reddit to Lemmy but it would be a net positive to ban the bots

    • Tja@programming.dev
      61·
      18 days ago

      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.