Discord has updated its privacy policy, effective on March 27, 2023. The company has added the previously deleted clauses back in as well as built-in tools that make it easier for users to interact with voice and video content, such as the ability to record and send brief audio or video clips.
Additionally, it promoted the Midjourney AI art-generating server and alleged that more than 3 million servers on the entire Discord network feature some sort of AI experience. This was done to position AI as something that is already well-liked on the site.
Many critics have brought up the recent removal of two phrases from Discord's privacy policy: "We generally do not store the contents of video or voice calls or channels" and "We also don't store streaming content when you share your screen." Many responses express concern about AI tools being developed off of works of art and data that have been collected without people's permission.
It looks like Discord is paying attention to customer concerns because it amended its post about the new AI tools to make it clear that even while its tools are connected to OpenAI, OpenAI may not utilize Discord user data to train its general models.
The three tools Discord is releasing are an AI AutoMod, an AI-generated Conversation Summaries, and a machine-learning version of its mascot Clyde.
Clyde has been reduced, and according to Discord, he can answer questions and have lengthy conversations with you and your friends. Clyde is connected to OpenAI. Moreover, it may suggest playlists and begin server threads. According to Discord, Clyde may access and utilize emoticons and GIFs like any Discord user while communicating with other users.
To help human server moderators, Discord introduced the non-OpenAI version of AutoMod last year. According to Discord, since its launch, "AutoMod has automatically banned more than 45 million unwanted messages from servers before they even had a chance to be posted," according to server policies.
The OpenAI version of AutoMod will similarly search for messages that break the rules, but it will do so while bearing in mind the context of a conversation. The server's moderator will receive a message from AutoMod if it believes a user has submitted something that violates the rules.
Anjney asserted that the company respects the intellectual property of others and demands that everyone utilizing Discord do the same. The company takes these worries seriously and has a strict copyright and intellectual property policy.
