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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.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 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.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 5 hours ago

I mean yeah he's c-suite

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 51 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Two things pop into mind

  • Power hungry mods always do stupid things that drive people away from their communities
  • Why was anyone with a C-Suite title a mod of an online community?
[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not like they have a real job that requires them to do anything, so they gotta find something to fill the void

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 14 hours ago

actually... probably true

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Spot on with the AI C-Suite description.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The C-suite is just a bunch of ex-rich kids who never wanted to do any actual work to keep society moving. If all the marketing departments disappeared in the world, we would be significantly better off as a species.

[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They're just rent-seeking parasites. Is it time for pinata economics?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

My ex kept the baseball bat, and I'm fresh out of sticks, so I guess I'll have to improvise.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How do you get all the candy into the baseball bat tho?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh, that isn't remotely why we had the baseball bat.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"the Discord"? Is that how people refer to Discord groups/communities/chatrooms/whatever now? Not "the Discord group" but just "the Discord"? (genuinely asking because this is the first I've seen it)

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah. It's been like that for ages.

Have you never heard "join our discord"?

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard "join the discord" pretty often too

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago

TIL! It is shorter. Makes sense.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but not "the Discord".

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

Within context, it's usually clear what is meant, e.g. the singular discord that is associated with a Reddit sub/community.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, and anthropic is supposed to be the least shitty of the western LLM actors.

[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 12 hours ago

Even if that was true, it's still kind of picking the friendliest supervillain.