Update: Most people in the replies seem against the idea. On second thought, I realized I don’t want to contribute to the proliferation of machine generated garbage. To that end, I have deleted the bot and the AI “art” community. I have also removed the repo for the bot from github.

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The better part of a year ago, I made a bot that generates images based on comments it’s mentioned in. Usage of it quickly got out of hand because some people (mostly me) were overusing it. The fix made for this at the time was making a community (!aiart@lemmygrad.ml) specifically for AI image generation with a designated thread for generating images. However, it seems that since then the bot has barely been used. This makes me think that the measures described above are no longer necessary. I propose letting the bot respond to mentions again.

To clarify what this would mean:

  • The bot would only respond to mentions (e.g. @ArtBot@lemmygrad.ml). This would mean it will only respond when a user wants it to instead of automatically spamming.
  • It would only respond to mentions in comments, not posts
  • Generated images will be tucked away in a spoiler, preventing the responses from being annoyingly large.

This would hopefully allow me to use the bot for what I originally envisioned – a quick way of generating low effort shitposts topical to the comment thread it’s mentioned in.

If what I’ve said above doesn’t seem enough to prevent it from being annoying, I could add other constraints such as limits per user within a time frame or limits per post.