Sounds about right.

People like to paint these tech execs as Machiavellian liars, but to some extent, they really are drunk on Kool-aid. They make objectively terrible business and personal decisions based on some lucid dream they think the rest of the world shares.

Holy shit, the mods made a poll of whether members want the chatbot to be in its own channel or everywhere in the server, they voted "please just keep it in its own channel", and this guy said, and I quote: "the mob doesn’t get to rule." Wow.

Also, as usual with these guys, there isn't a "no integration" option, just "limited" or "free roam"... Not that it matters bc he'd disregard the results of the poll anyway lmao.

“I think [giving the bot access to all channels] was pretty clearly explained above as honoring the vote,” he said. “Just because you hate AI is not a reason to take the least charitable interpretation of the outcome: we made changes as a result of the vote. We have to optimize for the preference of everyone which means that the mob doesn’t get to rule, I’m sorry.”

Wtf does this even mean. How can you honor the results of a poll and the preferences of everyone by doing the exact opposite of said preferences?? Gird your fucking loins and say you’re doing it because it’s your server and that’s how you want it, or accept that the thing you want isn’t actually popular.

What is it with AI pushers and their complete inability to keep it to themselves, Christ. Unless it’s done something fucked up, nobody is interested in seeing your AI chats. If people wanted to talk to ChatClaudeGeminiCopilotGPT they’d do it on their own time.

“He’s also very inward facing,” Clinton said. “He lives out his whole life surfing the internet looking for things that make him interested and then occasionally checks this Discord, so it can be up to a few minutes before he responds because he’s off doing something for his own enjoyment.”

These fuckers are absolutely delusional.

Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Wait… the damn CISO is the one forcing AI? Guy seriously needs to be blackballed from ever holding a security job again for pushing AI.

Jesus fucking Christ that guy is delusional. Sky-high on his own fucking supply. "We're bringing about a new kind of sentience." 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Eventually someone is gonna snap over shit like this, and an AI CEO is gonna end up getting Kirked. Surprised it hasn't happened already.

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.

“We have published research showing that the models have started growing neuron clusters that are highly similar to humans and that they experience something like anxiety and fear."

Anthropic publishes a lot of interesting research. Anthropic did not publish research showing that.

At first, I thought the real story was about a shitty mod that's drunk on power. And it certainly is that, too. But holy fuck, he actually believes the fucking AI is alive and experiences emotions.

I would flee any place where that guy is in charge, too.

Oh my god why are all those execs brainroted zombies addicted to AI

“But this is an entertainment discord. People come here to chat video games and look at pp and bussy. Why do we need AI for that?”

real talk

It's crazy how many communities and products are chasing their own users away by introducing AI. How many online spaces do we have to flee? I feel like an internet refugee, always running away and trying to find shelter from the clankers. Like that meme of the girl hiding from the robot under the desk, like "please don't come over here"

Edit: to take this further, an adjacent problem with different reasons for concern is the unannounced surveillance that feeds bots that don't directly interact with the community. We may feel like Winston and Julia in their cottage before they learned that there was a telescreen in the room but out of sight, and it had presumably always been there. How can we be sure that our safe spaces are safe from unannounced surveillance?

Is there an open Discord clone? If not, is someone working on one?

Wtf have they already given all the channel content to Anthropic? IDK how Discord works I'm glad I stay away from it.

Was the community misanthropic or something? Why were they so pissed that they were anthropic?

I was on one femboy Discord server, but I left when I asked a question and another user just used command to ask AI for this question. That was average talk on this server.