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?
If a community is not very active but there are a lot of bot posts, it just feels like “lipstick on a pig” - they’re trying to make it seem more active than it really is, and diluting what little “real” activity there is.
Ah yes, ‘life,’ one of the qualities that computers definitely have.
actually I see what some of you mean, regarding bots can kill communities, because real users know what stories are worth sharing. When bots do it right though, i still believe it drives up conversation when people aren’t posting, when real users engage in conversation in the comments and talk about the article that the bot shared. Which was my major point for bots, but not to really replace real users. which I feel some of you thought I meant it to that degree, of which I did not.
most people hate ai
I don’t think that’s true. There’s a lot of concern about it – particularly regarding companies scraping the everloving shit out of the internet and then reselling what they got for free; with it upending the apple cart on difficulty of production (and what that means for various professions); with people using it idiotically in inflexible, unauditable, bureaucratic ways (though they were already doing that “computer says ‘No’” thing even without the new AI techniques; it’s a broader social challenge that involves any computerized processing of people in 2023); etc. – but people are using it as a tool to do really neat things too, and a lot of the results from that are just fun.
Here’s a few examples of fun AI visual art from threads I’ve seen over the last few weeks:
- What have you DONE?! – https://feddit.de/post/4778843
- (Somewhat disturbing) Elvis performing a circumcision on a sentient hotdog – https://lemmy.ca/post/6735764
- (Mild NSFW) Sexy Anthropomorphic Plane – https://lemmy.ml/post/7072314
- When a Ninja Turtle’s Addiction Has Gone Too Far – https://lemmy.world/post/7522233
- Banana-Whale – https://lemmy.ml/post/7598841
- Storing Linux Commands as Bottled Spells in a Sorcerer’s Library – https://lemmy.world/post/7463201
- Doughy Desert Colossus – https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7336600
- Spiderman providing therapy to Batman – https://lemmy.world/post/7520721
- Hot Spaghetti 3 – https://lemmy.world/post/8035624
- Back to work – https://lemmy.world/post/7539961
- This entire thread is fun if you want more: Your username is the prompt, what did you get?
For some of these, something similar might have been made eventually (the spiderman one, in particular, I could see actually existing), but for most of them? Nah. Without AI gen they probably just never would’ve been made, and that’d be a shame!
It might not or mightt be true, I know a lot of artist hate it, you’d be hard pressed to not find any that does not like ai, not saying that no one out of these groups could not appreciate it. I do think ai can be great, but it’s all over the internet, that people just don’t like ai. Might even be 50-50 60-40 who knows, but it’s still a noticable amount.
I haven’t seen any bots but maybe I just don’t know what they look like. How are the bots posting?
My understanding is that Lemmy bot accounts generally do not federate over to kbin. If you want to see an example of a bot making regular posts, you can check out shinobu@ani.social. Prior to the lemmy.ml/ani.social defederation it posted in anime@lemmy.ml – i.e. go to https://lemmy.ml/c/anime sort by new and look like 10-ish pages back (currently) and you should see a bunch of bot posts (sometimes drowning out posts from real people). You can see it posting to https://ani.social/c/episode_discussion currently as well; there are a lot of bot threads and very few comments. When the bot had an outage a while ago (prior to the defederation) there was a discussion with various opinions on the bot and how/if it should operate. I think I’ve also seen another thread about it as well with more discussion, but I’m having trouble finding it again.
Edit: Just remembered another example. @ITNbot is a kbin bot (on a non kbin.social instance); you can see its behavior here – https://kbin.social/m/ImproveTheNews@fedinews.net – I blocked it a while back since seeing all its threads in new was bugging me at the time.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !anime@lemmy.ml, !episode@ani.social, !episode_discussion@ani.social
