I really hate the phrase “bots” because it gives the appearance that they’re all useless and malicious. I guarantee you they lumped in the following extremely valid uses of “bots”:
Automated personal scripts that many programmers use, these are technically bots. Hell, I use a “bot” to auto-clip digital Safeway coupons
Moderation bots on sites like Lemmy/Reddit
Archive efforts
Are AI chatbots bots? If they use a loose enough definition all this means is humans utilize fuck tons of automation over the Internet, both programmers and not.
Holy shit, thinking of all the resources that are just wasted for this shit… Imagine you could just slash all web infrastructures by two thirds.
I really hate the phrase “bots” because it gives the appearance that they’re all useless and malicious. I guarantee you they lumped in the following extremely valid uses of “bots”:
Are AI chatbots bots? If they use a loose enough definition all this means is humans utilize fuck tons of automation over the Internet, both programmers and not.
How?
They go, “hey bot, would you please clip me some Safeway coupons?”
Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors and their bot newspaper, then clips up some coupons and hands them to OP.
It’s a pretty endearing sight.
But digitally.
But digitally.
But digitally.
But digitally.
They said we’d all be living in a VR world by now back in the 90s!
I had some good times with your mom last night. But digitally.