Hello everyone ,
There have been concerns raised lately over issues with the Auto tl;dr bot which creates summaries of news articles from several known sites, however only really ABC news is applicable here. Relevant threads:
- Truck stowaway ālucky to be aliveā after travelling nearly 400km on metal racks beneath B-double (no problem with summary - just discussion of concerns)
- Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs (Australian Politics)
There are also many other occurrences (I havenāt been keeping track), if there are some you would like appended to this list comment with a link below.
Most concerns are that the bot misses important information and/or gives a misleading summary. Iād like to see where people sit on the issue and how we could potentially deal with it. There are a few options I can think of:
- Remove the bot (through a ban)
- Get @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone to comment a disclaimer underneath all of its comments
- Get @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone automatically delete all comments by the bot which have been reported (may open door for abuse)
- Do nothing
I donāt hate the bot - it can be useful, and I like the concept, however, just like us it gets things wrong.
Anyway feedback is welcome, if you have an opinion on this please comment below so I can judge where we all stand on this and try to make the right decision
If it canāt put an accurate summary, and it canāt put the text verbatim, Iād rather it just buggered off I guess. Not much point reading half the story and missing context and critical paragraphs.
ban. A culture of reading the source must be encouraged
It has about a 60% usefulness ratio in my opinion but Iād suggest option 2 an auto comment disclaimer that it often leaves relevant stuff out AND to downvote it when the summary isnt useful.
The latter because a) itās a signal to later readers that the summary is misleading and b) if the maintainer is monitoring (prob not) thatās a clue as to which summaries need to be looked at
If the bot is taking clicks away from the ABC; thatās not a good thing.
Iāve stopped reading them, found the summary to heavily change a story as context was completely removed, especially when political
