Proposal to add 🤖 as a reaction to AI content

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I like that icon but frankly spoken I do not see any advantage in adding it to the reaction panel. If someone posts AI generated text it is fair enough to let them know that this is not appreciated in the forum, but this can better be done with a few polite words than by use of a bot icon. A commentless bot icon as reaction to a post is surely not

Having said that I can not see any reasonable Pros for such an reaction emoji, but several Cons:

  1. The bot emoji certainly has the potential to offend other participants, specially those who did not use AI for a post but earned this reaction anyhow, like @Malle_Yeno just pointed out.

  2. Additionally the bot emoji has a potential for misuse by being placed intentionally under posts which are most probably not AI generated just to wilfully annoy someone.

  3. The introduction of “your” popcorn reaction (which I understand as absolutely harmless) caused a discussion with more than 200 posts, still going on and a second one with nearly 100 posts, still going on. This is such a waste of time that we should not trigger another very similar issue.

  4. As AI is developing fast I have no doubt that in near future it will be much harder to tell if a post was created by AI or not. The more difficult it becomes to distinguish between AI and human generated, the bigger becomes the space for misplacing a bot emoji reaction and the less sense would such a reaction make.

  5. Following the rule of acting in “good faith” we should assume that someone creating a post with AI did that in good faith and not to annoy others. In such cases it is surely better to let them know in a polite way instead of flagging the post with a bot icon (as already expressed above).

I’d say this are reasons enough to downvote your proposal.

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