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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee (www.404media.co)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] 60 points 9 months ago

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?
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    [–] 42 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Spot on with the AI C-Suite description.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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    • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Rapist mindset.

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    • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (5 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)

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  • [+] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)
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    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

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