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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee (www.404media.co)
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A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot on the Discord, despite protests from members.

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.

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[–] 50 points 10 months ago (10 children)

and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience,

Idiot.

Also, discord sucks and it's a shame people use it when it's just going to enshittify like any other private for profit entity.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Discord sucks but every alternative has some major caveat that makes it suck more. Most people don't want to use separate apps for voice and text. Most people don't want to manually type in servers to play games.

    Not defending them at all here but there's no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Not defending them at all here but there’s no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well

    I understand this but it's also a little "There's no compelling reason for us frogs to get out of this water. It's warm and comfortable". It's inevitably going to boil.

    But you're right that there aren't great alternatives (that I know of). I think matrix is out there, but I don't know anyone who uses it.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    @jjjalljs @glimse Guilded was a trillion times better than Discord. I cant think of any Discord feature that was above Guilded's features besides having the Facebook userbase. But Roblox bought Guilded, gutted the userbase, and is now shutting it down. Most of the Guilded users went to Root which is expected to come out of beta this month. Root is going to be modular like Guilded with bots and apps. I was hoping Revolt would rise up but it hasnt advanced much in years. Shame because Revolt was open source like Matrix.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    That's also why the analogy exists, if the water slowly comes to boil, the frogs don't realize until it's too late, just like enshittification.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What happens when it's "too late" for your chat software, though?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The same thing as Digg I guess.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    digg is currently locked down and will return triumphantly with some kind of shit they are planning and itll be very good its invite only my cousin can get me an invite but he said only if I let him peek at my girlfriend while she changes into her swimsuit. I think the new secret digg will be fucking very great I will let him do his peeking its worth it

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago

    I get the analogy but it's just chat software. Discord isn't that important to me that it's going to be a tragedy when it boils and by then, there will (hopefully) be an equivalent alternative we can move to. If not, we'll use something "worse" and it'll be fine.

    But until then, it's still the best by a wide margin even if it has a stupid nitro button.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Are there any good self hosted options? I’ve looked into mumble but that was missing a lot of features

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Not really, no. The feature set is pretty much impossible to provide profitably, or to self-host for most users, hence all of the services always enshittifying and/or shutting down.

    Simple text chat is perfectly achievable. Real time video calls, sure, somewhat. Sending large files to eachother? Cloud-hosted chat history going back to the beginning of time? Not feasible without pretty significant monthly subscription costs. Can't grow the user base if you charge a subscription to all your users.

    Anyways, Mattermost and Matrix kinda sorta work, until they don't work anymore.

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