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botwiki, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to accessibility

Do you typically use AI to describe images you post/see on social media?

#AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility
#a11y #blind #ai #poll

alttexthalloffame, 22 days ago to accessibility

Hey, if you don't like the fact that many #blind people have to rely on AI to describe images for them, you can help by, you know, describing images for them.

https://mastodon.social/@botwiki/111477849625070656

#AltText #accessibility #ai

botwiki, 11 months ago to wordpress

The new Mastodon embeds are looking good on Botwiki!

If you have a WordPress site, try them out here: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-embeds-wordpress-plugin

#wordpress #mastodon #embed #fediverse

botwiki, 8 months ago to fediBots

Celebrating eight years of https://botmakers.org! 🥳🎉🤖

#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #botmakers #botwiki #community #anniversary #milestone

botwiki, 11 months ago to random

Do you keep a list of all your bot projects somewhere online?

#bots #CreativeBots

botwiki, 10 months ago to fediBots

https://botwiki.org now has 2,000 bots!

#botwiki #bots #CreativeBots #milestone #TwoThousand

The number 2,000 made up of animated robot face emoji.

botwiki, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to fediBots

Anyone putting "learn to make creative bots" as their New Year's resolution?

https://botwiki.org/resource/guide/the-definitive-guide-to-creative-botmaking/

#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #LearnToCode

botwiki, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to fediBots

So, are you making Mastodon/fediverse bots yet?

#bots #CreativeBots #botmakers

botwiki, 6 months ago to ai

#ai #MachineLearning

via https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/9m61cqk8y5

botwiki, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Some people put #NoBot in their profile descriptions to let bot developers know that they don't want to interact with their bots.

Do you, as a botmaker, check for this?

#bots #CreativeBots #botmakers

botwiki, 5 months ago to fediBots

Someone researching the topic of "social bots and how they can become of use as a weapon for media literacy" reached out asking for examples of "bots fighting racism, hate speech etc".

Anything that comes to mind?

I've already shared more general links, like:

• https://botwiki.org/bot/?tags=political
• https://botwiki.org/bot/?tags=racism

#bots #CreativeBots #botmakers

botwiki, 10 months ago to news

"Netflix is hiring a $ 900,000-per-year AI product manager, Disney is looking for generative AI specialists, and Sony seeks an AI ethics expert", while writers and actors are on strike.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-jobs-studios-hire-1235545491/

#news #tech #ai #labor #WorkersRights #WritersStrike #ActorsStrike

botwiki, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

How often do you check your bots' notifications?

#bots #CreativeBots #botmakers

botwiki, 11 months ago to genart

Botwiki will celebrate its 8th (!) anniversary later this week! What better way to celebrate than by making a new (or your first) bot!

https://botwiki.org/resources

#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding

botwiki, 1 month ago to random

Happy #NationalHaikuPoetryDay! https://botwiki.org/bot/?tags=haiku

botwiki, 10 months ago to fediBots

In case you missed it over the weekend, Botwiki is now 8 years old 🎉

https://botwiki.org/blog/eight-years-of-botwiki

#botwiki #milestone #bots #CreativeBots

botwiki, 9 months ago to fediBots

While lyrics and quote bots are not typically featured on Botwiki, these are still a fun introduction to the world of botmaking.

And with Pipedream, it’s super easy, with very little "coding" necessary.

https://botwiki.org/resource/tutorial/how-to-make-a-mastodon-bot-that-posts-your-favorite-quotes-or-lyrics

#bots #CreativeBots #tutorial #python #pipedream

botwiki, 10 months ago to mastodon

One of the upcoming changes in the next version of Mastodon is changing the "bot" label to "automated", for "less negative connotation".

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/25356

Full list of change: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta1

#mastodon #release #bots #CreativeBots

botwiki, 9 months ago to random

Highly recommend following @botwikirandomfediverse and @botwikirandom if you have a bot on Botwiki. Always nice to see it come up!

#bots #CreativeBots #botwiki

botwiki, 11 months ago to tech

What @clive learned from six historic computer bugs.

https://clivethompson.medium.com/what-ive-learned-from-the-worst-computer-bugs-13a6e1a38f73

#tech #computers #bugs #y2k

botwiki, 1 month ago to genart

A quick tutorial that shows you how to make a Mastodon bot with as little coding as possible.

https://botwiki.org/resource/tutorial/how-to-make-a-mastodon-bot-that-posts-your-favorite-quotes-or-lyrics/

via @stefan

#CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #LearnToCode #mastodon #MastodonAPI #python

botwiki, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fediBots

For bots that post random stuff from a list, do you post completely randomly, or do you tweak your bot to, for example, avoid posting the same thing twice in a row?

What strategies do you use?

#bots #CreativeBots #botmakers

botwiki, 20 days ago to ai

"Instead, the work these generators churn out look uncanny, smooth, and generally off in ways that are both obvious and not [...], it also struggles with statistically improbable prompts like “a horse riding an astronaut,” which still seem exclusively the province of human imagination"

https://www.vox.com/culture/351041/ai-art-chatgpt-dall-e-sora-suno-human-creativity

#ai #AiArt #tech #technology

botwiki, 24 days ago to fediBots

Only 24% of image bots on botsin.space use alt text??

Source: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112467699732404812

Come on, we can do better!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/creative-bots-and-accessibility/

#acessibility #AltText #botmakers #CreativeBots #ArtBots #BotsInSpace

botwiki, 23 days ago to ai

"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. [...]

ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

#ai