LLMs are completely useless and horrific from a climate perspective. People have utility bots. Everything else i would ban from my instance.

Nah. I’m not 100% against it, some are fun or useful in concept, but I’m here to talk to people, and threads littered with grammar corrections and Sokka haikus get old.

If there was an effective vetting process for useful bots, eg the repost sleuth bot, that’d be nice. But the “good bot”/“bad bot” voting system just became its own form of spam.

What would be its uses?
Or what would be the fun things it would use?

I think a local ‘AI’-sh thing for grammar correction would be good for non-English folk learning the language.
Or maybe one that makes formatting easier? Tho, having regex with some shortcuts may be more efficient there.

I’d be concerned that my own chatbot might get jealous

No. I dont want to set the earth on fire for useless bots to inject meaningless comments into real conversations.

Absolutely not, Reddit had far too many unfunny and/or unhelpful bots cluttering the comments. I don’t want to see that here.

I wouldn’t, no. Good question though.

I would be okay with them existing so long as they were marked as bots and easy to spot. (And block)

Utility bots that are summoned on demand, probably, as long as we have a good process to kick them out if they are not helpful.

Regular commenter bots? Certainly not. The point of lemmy is to talk with other humans.

But why?

No, that would absolutely ruin Lemmy. If I learned that any sizeable portion of the accounts were bots, I’d quit.

I might be okay with specific use cases, but overall no. Why do we need to invent users? Users are a thing that already exists. This is a solution desperately hunting for a problem.

Nope.

As long as they are clearly marked as bot accounts.

Nah, man

No.