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

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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  • glimse@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    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

    • Tonava@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      Just simple things like custom emojis seem to be impossible on most chat platforms, which is insane. Large part of why my friend groups won’t move from discord is how the custom emojis are a key component in the everyday discussions, just like they were waaay back with msn messenger

    • jjjalljs
      61·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • moncharleskey@lemmy.zip
        1·
        3 days ago

        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.

            • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.orgEnglish
              3·
              3 days 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

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        22·
        3 days 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.