I used to think that bots on Farcaster were problematic because of spam, but it's bigger than that.

If I respond to a bot, I feel like an idiot who wasted his time building a connection with a ChatGPT wrapper. 

It makes me suspicious of new users, and I tend to respond primarily to people I already know. This means that it's harder for genuine new users to build relationships on the network.

It could be fine for social *media*, but it's bad for the social *network*. 

What would be the ways to mitigate that?

about to ship some improvements to the spam model that will make a lot of the bots go away. 

will be a constant cat and mouse game, but we will win in the long run.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

How do we help friends, especially non native English speakers who keep getting caught in the net?

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Perfect. Is the best way to do that to tag you? I don’t want to take up your time but it really hurts my Japanese friends who use ChatGPT to cast in English and tend to get seen as ChatGPT bots, but they actually are using ChatGPT.

flag cases where they are being incorrectly labelled - that really helps us improve.

Usually. But that definitely didn’t work here at all. English or bust.

What do they do on Twitter? Speak in their native language?

I’ll point out it’s only a cat and mouse game with this approach

I know it’s been said before that bot vs low effort are undifferentiated in the algo, but it really discourages cross-cultural conversation

Ty Pichi, a great and necessary question. 
🍖x123

seriously. its like they dont consider the other side of it at alll. i hope this can be remedied more sensitively, and weighing more fairly both points of view.