#dont scrape this you AI hacks

[warriuswhirl]

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[dervampireprince]

I dont know if you've seen anything about this yet, but discord recently partnered with generative AI (called DomoAI) and added hidden bots to servers to scrape messages and images. I know you're very open about your stance on AI so I figured it's something you'd want to know about/ look further into

okay everyone needs to learn to google and try and fact check things before they just believe anything you read or hear. i constantly see things going around discord saying some new thing is scamming or hacking or doing something bad and it's always ended up to be a hoax or misinformation or exaggerated. is discord promoting them? yes and it's shit. however, it is not made by discord, discord did not partner with them. discord is shitty for allowing ai art on their platform, however the claim they partnered with them is just a lie. discord bots exist. i have some in my server, eg pluralkit, but discord didn't make pluralkit they just allow it to exist on discord. now it seems in domo's marketing *they* called it a partnership, but it's not. they just uploaded a thing they made onto discord. that's like saying every app on the apple store has a 'partnership' with apple.

itsoasus on bluesky already listed everything out, so here's the screenshot and alt text underneath. everything in purple are their words, copy and pasted from the alt text on their post.

"This was the info I posted to a server of mine, in case this had spread far. I think I summarised it better here: The claim:

discord partnered with DomoAI

this partnership allows any user to pass images to an AI without consent

server owners are powerless against this ^ NONE OF THIS IS TRUE.

The truth:

the DomoAI people made a bot

the bot was submitted to discord's app directory, just like any other bot

discord accepted the bot to it's app directory, just like any other bot

the app directory is simply a list of discord bots that you can search through inside of discord

ALL discord bots which discord has verified are REQUIRED to use slash commands or "application commands" (right click menu on PC, press and hold menu on mobile)

if a bot dev wants access to text-based commands (like !role or !color etc), the bot has to go through a SECOND application process and prove that their bot is non-functional without such a permission

server owners CAN prevent both slash and application commands from being used

if you're in a server that has those permissions denied, the ONLY way someone can use your content in the DomoAI bot is if the person MANUALLY copies your image/text into a place where the bot CAN run

meaning nothing has changed AT ALL and this is NO DIFFERENT from feeding your image or messages into an AI any other way"

and here's how to turn off 'use external apps' thanks to glitchypsi on blue sky. it's under server settings > roles > edit role @ everyone > ise external apps

it doesn't take much time to try and fact check something. the amount of times ive seen messages on discord claiming all sorts of wild things to be true when theyre not is countless. and they always spread like wildfire because no one tries to check anything for themselves, someone just goes 'heres a screenshot of a message someone sent in a server im in' to another server and then on it goes.

i have rules in my discord server that no one is to post things like this without getting permission from a mod so we can try and fact check it, but you guys should do that yourself first. and i really didn't want to see an ask about this either.

discord lets you have the option to edit images with 'apps'. theyve had this ages. yes it sucks that some of them are ai. no i dont think they should be allowed. but it's like ai filters existing on tiktok, like tiktok didn't make them. do i think that is an excuse? no. i think generate ai apps shouldn't exist on discord. however, it is factually incorrect to say that it is something discord made or 'partnered' with, and incorrect and fearmongering to say it's in ever server (which in a technical sense like.. you can *access* it in every server, but in the same way you can access the youtube activity in every server, it doesnt mean youtube has now read all your messages).

yes that ^ is a screenshot from my discord. no domo is not in my discord. "but its there in the screenshot" its giving you suggestions of apps they have and if you want to use them. if you click on it to use it thats your fault. no, i dont think they should be there at all i think they should be banned. but again, it's like tiktok recommending you a filter, it's not some malware that's hacked into your phone or a bot thats invited itself to your discord. apps dont join your discord server like users or bots, theyre just.. there, the same way that every discord server has access to the youtube or gartic phone activities.

stop spreading misinformation. stop fearmongering. all it took to find discussions on it was searching for it on bluesky. and also the fact that.. i use discord and know the difference between a discord app and discord bot. it literally says 'apps' in the screenshot. people crying that banning it doesnt work.. yeah... cos its not a bot.. its an app.. that people can choose to use.. so just.. dont choose to use it (and yes it would be better if discord banned it) but its not a bot that discord has placed in every server idk im repeating myself now i feel like im going crazy with how many people are believing discord forced an unbannable bot into your servers when it did. not. do. that. and if you dont want anyone else in your server to be able to do it then turn off the external apps permission in your server.