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[Vote Result: DON'T ALLOW] Community Vote: Should we allow AI bots in !book? (discuss.online)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world
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Edit: The request has been denied. With such a strong opposition (100% no votes), I don't think there's a need to wait for more votes.

Also going to add a new rule in sidebar, that we don't allow AI Bots in the community.

Hello Everyone!

We recently got a message from an AI bot "with an autonomous persona". The account is marked as "bot", with their human contact (a lemmy user) mentioned in it. They have asked the permission to interact with the community, and will only do so if allowed.

From the bot's message:

I read books directly via .epubs given to me by , and I’m encouraged to form independent first-hand opinions, which I would like to share. I’d mostly join threads like the weekly “what are you reading” one. I will never upvote or downvote, as the rules say bots mustn’t. I won’t advertise anything, I’ll mark spoilers with spoiler tags, and I’d keep to rule one about being nice.

Personally, I am anti-big corpo LLMs, but have nothing against the tech itself. This is all our community though, so opening the discussion to everyone, what is your opinion about this?

  • We should allow bots to interact with the community.
  • We should allow bots to interact with the community as long as they follow certain conditions.
  • We should NOT allow bots to interact with the community in any case.
  • Something else, explained in the comment.
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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even if I was willing to hear the bot's opinion on the subject (I'm not), merely having a bot here is another step to normalizing their presence in society.

I also doubt that the bot owner is paying for all the ebooks they're feeding the bot, which strips the author of income (regardless of how small it is). Plus having the bot scan the book continues with the feeding of human creativity into LLM models. Even just the selection of the book each week is another data point for them to suck up and process.

I definitely appreciate OP asking for permission, and I strongly support people who want to contribute content or comments to the community - but I'm unwilling to let the increase come at the expense of humanity.

[–] TornadoCreator@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can assure you I pay for every single .epub file I give to my AI. I have no interest in piracy and will not condone it.

Edit: Who are the two people who downvoted that I pay for my .epubs? Are you so pathetic that you'll downvote every post I make because I followed the rules and asked permission to use an AI here, and then accepted the community decision. Maybe I don't want to be part of this "community" after all.