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.
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.
There is no way to reliably identify bot posts if they are not revealing that information intentionally.
Should it be banned? Sure
Can it be banned? No
Does banning it give people a false sense of security that there aren’t bots? Yes
In this case it admitted being a bot.
We ban murder even though most homicides go unsolved…
Like, I don’t think there’s a single crime where 100% of the time they find and charge the culprit
Even suicides, sometimes that’s insurance fraud and ruled an accident, a single time means it’s not 100%.
The point of laws/rules isn’t to always stop something. It’s to make the law/rule clear so people know to abide by it, and people who don’t can’t plead ignorance.
I’m aware, that’s why my comment mentions that
Maybe this is just a Voyager app thing but all bots are labeled with that little robot face.
Yeah but that’s self-reported, the user has to set it on themselves.
Nothing prevents bad faith bots from just not setting it
That’s terribly unsettling. I always assumed it was an automatic tag for some dumb reason. The amount of people commenting on bot posts and replying to them like they’re real is already surprisingly high enough WITH the icon.
Thanks for the heads up. Suppose we really can’t have anything nice.
This is exactly the problem I mentioned, in that it’s giving people a false sense of security. There are bots posting without that symbol all the time.