If a bot isn't declaring itself as a bot, yes. Report it.

If it's a bot that is not registered as a bot, yes it should be reported.

If it's registered as a bot account it doesn't show up in my feed because I have the hide bot posts.

I'd say yes, depending on the channel rules, for the simple reason that it is literally an arms race until better bot blocking tools come about. Even then, it's just the next step in the arms race.

I reported a spamming bot account the other day, apparently trying to hock AI based business/realty ideas and other AI slop across multiple communities.

When the cats community (yes little kitty cats) has a post that obviously doesn't belong, plus the user only started their account a couple or few hours ago, report that shit!

When you make a report, it goes to the mods of that community, but it also goes to the Admins of their home instance.

Generally, people take a dim view of AI content and remove it once it's apparent.

Yes, I'd say report it when you see it. If you see something, say something.

InfiniteBagel already got banned for this, so at a minimum, Bagel is ban evading. Same for CosmicWaffle or whatever the other one was.

It's just spam and most instances have a no spam rule. Yes, report.

Thanks for the thread. I've been noticing those accounts and have been trying to figure out what action I should take as a mod.

What's really fucked up about it is that the content is actually pretty coherent and on-topic, and it seems clear that at least some of the comments are human -- like it's more "tool-assisted" than fully "bot." So it feels like it's almost valuable but also kinda 'cheating,' which (from a mod perspective) makes it hard to decide what to do about it.

What I'd really like to know is what techniques these accounts are using and what they're actually up to. The other day I gave one a warning and demanded an explanation, but I only got an angry reply and then the account was nuked by an admin before I had the chance to do anything else.

I don't care if I'm "allowed" to report them. These latest bots are pretending to be people when it's clear they are not. Going to call out, downvote, and report liars and trolls wherever they appear, AI or not.

You have to ban this sort of thing before it can be reported as something that is banned

As long as all it is is something like a bot that checks a website and posts the latest links in it's own sealed off community ( just the bot allowed to post and maybe comments off to keep discussion on posts done by actual people ), I don't have much of a problem with it as long as it doesn't interact with others in the comments, real or bot. And as long as there's something like an icon to clearly show it's something like an RSS bot, I don't mind. Reporting them, I'd say they're fine not to be as long as they don't interact with people.

But other types of bots? Spam posting bots? Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have them and they should be reported, after actually assessing whether or not they're an actual bot account and not just someone without a life. I don't care how much lower it makes the daily post count and such drops, I'd rather see less things that are posted by a human than more things posted by bots.

Also, this comment has made me a little annoyed because with how I have my phones keyboard set up, every time I type "bot" it wants so badly to autocorrect to "not" instead.

Maybe a botornot community is in order? If a human cannot discern another human then....what.....beep beep.....beep

I'd just like to clarify that thick Latina bots will NOT be reported. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

What do you mean, "should they be allowed to report?" The report button works regardless of what kind of account you're reporting.

If you mean "should the accounts be allowed", then that's entirely up to the communities and the instances involved. Some may be fine with them, others might not, it's not anything that can be decided globally.

If you're in a community that's allowing accounts you don't want to see then block the account.