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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by poopsmith to c/tldrbot
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The bot just makes use of:

  • SMMRY - I'm evaluating this and might eventually switch over to some ml library
  • LemmyBot

As posts come in on a news community (via LemmyBot), I grab the url and pass it to smmry, and reply. And that's it.

Update June 22, 2023: I'll probably stop using SMMRY as it's pretty buggy and not usable ~20% of the time. I'm thinking about using a headless browser (like Selenium), grabbing the text, and using GPT to analyze and summarize the text. I need to try this out and guesstimate the pricing for it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Two suggestions:

  1. you should change the "tl;dr" heading to say "tl;dr (machine-generated)" to avoid wasting people's time who know they don't want to read LLM-generated summaries.

  2. you should make the suggestions link be a relative link, like this: [Suggestions?](/c/[email protected]) so that it works for users on other instances too.

Tbh I would still lean toward banning this bot even if you take the above suggestions, because LLM-generated texts are often subtly wrong and basically worse than useless imo (eg, often actually harmful).

But making it more clearly labeled as being what it is would be an improvement.

I'm on the admin team at lemmy.ml and have banned a few people posting totally-not-labeled but obviously-LLM-generated comments lately, and I'm getting pretty tired of this automated bullshit tech. But since yours is at least somewhat labeled, and hopefully better labeled soon if you take my suggestions above, I won't ban this one without discussing with other admins first.