Yup, I’m posting another this week. Sorry.

This week I’m hoping we can wrangle a solution around AI and our selfhosted community. There are plenty of strong opinions (both pro and con), but one thing is for certain - there needs to be better disclosure in promo posts. Two options (that aren’t mutually exclusive):

  • Any posts of an AI focused, AI Developed, etc software gets an [AI] tag. No, a [Not-AI] tag is not needed to accomplish this, thats kind of a “non-golfer” sort of tag.
  • Comment requiring an AI disclosure response to every promo post, if its not detailed in the post itself. Specifics (generating docs for commands, translation, whole-boat vibe-coded this app, etc) would be requested.

I will say that having disclosure and/or tagging would mean that comments that just say “slop” or “fuck ai” or whatever would be off topic at that point, that information is already provided, so its just noise (and sometimes pretty uncivil - I’ve been light on that for now due to the need for a rule on this).

The tag [AI] would make it easy to filter out (or search for, if that’s your thing), but there is a wildly different degree of AI use out there, and from the posts with a positive score, its usually due to responsible AI use (translations, a snippet they had to do something obscure with, available to use with AI but doesn’t require it, whatever), which is why I think the disclosure has a place as a benefit to everyone.

Please provide any input or alternative options on this, and I can then put it to a vote like the last one. Comments seem to be the best approach without involving something off-site, but if you have a better idea/option, please share.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Lemmy.world does, specifically for bots. They have to be set as a bot in profile and request permission first from the community.

    I banned yesterday and all of their comments should have been deleted as well, I’ll check into that.

      • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        Ugh they just made new ones.

        Yesterday was _cafe, today was _sh (for shitjustworks) and _lw for Lemmy.world.

        Please keep on reporting when you see it and I’ll get to them as soon as I can.

        For the record, the Lemmy.world TOS requires that any bot account be set as such in their profile, and that any community they post to requires mod approval first.

        Generically speaking, I won’t be approving any. What I mean is any bot request is going to need a valid and real reason for its use here, which I would then bring to the community to make that choice like I did for this discussion thread. I wish there were a better way than a basic upvote or downvote system, but its what we’ve got so its what I’d use.

        I have not posted about any new bots since I took over here a few months ago, so no new bots should be considered as having community approval.

        The acronyms and initialisms bot (can’t remember the name right now) was approved before I joined and everyone seems cool with, I never get reports, so I haven’t bothered with posting about it.

        Edit: WHY IS AUTOCORRECT CHANGING ‘BOT’. So annoying. Anyway, fixed.