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Truck stowaway 'lucky to be alive' after travelling nearly 400km on metal racks beneath B-double (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have noticed some bad ones on the past but people seem to correct them, if you come across bad ones report them as misleading and I'll remove them.

Looks like someone's opened an issue about it on GitHub so the owner should be aware of the problem: https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutoTldrBot/issues/18

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The worst thing about this bot is that people trust it. I shouldn't have to follow it around, check the summary and the article, and write a summary of its mistakes. That it is thoroughly unreliable should be broadcast when it is used.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's the problem - people won't read the article not knowing the full story, or in some cases not knowing the correct story. This has an adverse effect on conversations, though in saying that it is still quite useful to see if I'm interested in the article. We have a few options:

Banning the bot
Opening a PR to add a disclaimer to the bot
Making @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone automatically reply to every summary in our communities

I'm inclined to go with the third one however it may come off as a bit spammy

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm fine with any of those options. The bot is a menace.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

I've made a post to discuss these concerns to see where everyone stands on it: Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot (if link doesn't work it's pinned to !australia@aussie.zone)