“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.

Users voted to restrict Anthropic’s Claude to its own channel, but Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a moderator in the Discord, overrode them. According to members of this Discord community who spoke with 404 Media on the condition of anonymity, the Discord that was once vibrant is now a ghost town. They blame the chatbot and Clinton’s behavior following its launch.

“To me it shines a light on the god-complex that AI C-suite members seem to have, and their willingness to ignore people’s consent and opinions as they bulldoze their way of pushing AI,” Reese, a member of the community, told 404 Media in the aftermath.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    i hate to break it to you but Discord the company is sending everything that goes through all servers and all private DMs through LLMs: this is done as a part of their trust and safety system. it’s right in the privacy policy that they use OpenAI

    This is a good argument, but more for not using Discord than it not mattering if they put in a chatbot nobody wants.

    • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
      7·
      11 hours ago

      Some people just don’t value their own privacy and choose to use discord. It’s not like discord hasn’t always been intended as a honeypot of sorts for collecting user data.

      I especially love folks who run their “forum” for privacy centered software on discord…it’s just embarrassing.