It’s been a reality for quite a while. It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly we started seeing these, but I reckon to guess they didn’t start being a thing until the mid-2010s. We’ve had bots before on the internet, but they were regulated to being more like assistants like on IRC channels or chat rooms. Where their purpose was to be greeters or handle tasks the moderator needed to be automated.
It’s been a reality for quite a while. It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly we started seeing these, but I reckon to guess they didn’t start being a thing until the mid-2010s. We’ve had bots before on the internet, but they were regulated to being more like assistants like on IRC channels or chat rooms. Where their purpose was to be greeters or handle tasks the moderator needed to be automated.