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botwiki

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Cataloging the world of creative bots, clumsy AI, and machine ethics. 🤖💾🎨

Submit your bots and botmaking resources: https://botwiki.org/contribute

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botwiki, (edited ) to fediBots
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So, are you making Mastodon/fediverse bots yet?

botwiki, to random
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What are some hidden gem bots that you follow and should have more followers?

botwiki, (edited ) to random
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Some people put 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?

botwiki, (edited ) to random
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What are some of the reasons you gave up on an idea for a bot?

botwiki, to random
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Do you keep a list of all your bot projects somewhere online?

botwiki, to wordpress
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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

botwiki, (edited ) to random
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What would you like to see more of on https://botwiki.org?

botwiki, to fediBots
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Celebrating eight years of https://botmakers.org! 🥳🎉🤖

botwiki, (edited ) to random
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Do your scheduled bots post exactly on the hour? For example, at 9am, 1pm, 5pm, etc.

Or do you schedule your bot for a less common time, eg: 9:15am, 1:30pm, or something completely random each time the bot posts?

botwiki, to random
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We need more Wikipedia-themed fediverse bots on Botwiki. Anyone making these? Or bringing them over from Twitter?

https://botwiki.org/bot/?networks=fediverse&tags=wikipedia

botwiki, (edited ) to accessibility
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How do you typically handle image description for your image bots?

Feel free to share any useful tips!

botwiki, to ai
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"Following disappointing quarterly earnings results by Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet, Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost a whopping $190 billion in stock market value."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-companies-lose-190-billion-dismal-google-report

botwiki, to ai
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The inclusion of AI in products will continue until morale improves.

https://www.seroundtable.com/searchers-want-to-turn-off-google-ai-overviews-37405.html

Via https://c.im/@rustybrick/112450444107845817

botwiki, to tech
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"Landlords are increasingly turning to AI programs to screen prospective tenants. The prevalence of incorrect, outdated, or misleading information in such reports is increasing costs and barriers to housing, especially among people of color."

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/artificial-intelligence-corporate-landlords-tenants-screening-crime-racism/

@technology

botwiki, (edited ) to accessibility
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Do you typically use AI to describe images you post/see on social media?


alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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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,
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@alttexthalloffame

"How can you use AI, it steals things people share online, it burns down the planet!"

"Alright, do you mind telling me what's in this picture you posted online?"

"Ah. Carry on."

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

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

botwiki, to fediBots
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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/

botwiki, to ai
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"But for all of the benefits of AI tools media companies extoll, there are glaring issues — for one, the material produced is often bad or plainly inaccurate."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23785645/go-media-ai-generated-articles-gizmodo-av-club-artificial-intelligence-bots

botwiki, to ai
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Do not let this thing in your house.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23721400/amazon-astro-smarter-home-robot-ai

botwiki, to fediBots
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A few cool emoji bots to follow to celebrate the 🤖

https://botwiki.org/bot/?networks=fediverse&tags=emoji

botwiki, to ai
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"White fonting" in resumes making a comeback, thanks to .

"The concept is simple: Copy a list of relevant keywords or the job description itself, paste it in a résumé and change the font color to white. The hope is that AI bots or digital filters in applicant tracking systems read the white text and surface the résumé for human review."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/24/white-font-resume-tip-keywords/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_fonting

botwiki, to news
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"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/

botwiki, to ai
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via https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/9m61cqk8y5

botwiki, to ai
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"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

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