What about: Explore the neitherworld of gopher, IRC and the (telnet-)BBS community and be fine?

fucking everything kind of sucks right now.

What is making you stink discord isn't also selling all its data to AI companies?

What prevents Discord from selling the chat logs to AI companies?

I have never understood why people moved stuff to the closed Discord server system..

Self hosting is the way.

Let them scrape. AI as it currently is, is still autocomplete with extra steps, and still prone to hallucination. As it is it will be usable to make cheap, passable content, but not hit those moments of inspiration of human art (yet -- there are real AI groups looking to make AGI)

It is a bubble which will pop and AI will be seen as a tool (a resource-costly tool) that requires its own set of experts independent from the experts that use ACAD or write editorial copy or do investigative work. Id est, it's not the replacement of employees that boards of directors want it to be.

And AGI is centuries from being efficient enough that you can make Rosie the Robot who cleans your house and makes a good upside-down pineapple cake.

You forgot about influencers who will read your knowledge and present as theirs in their videos.

Discord is one of the greedy AI companies training on your data

And that's why ketchup makes an excellent fuel additive.

Counter offer: Be a huge nerd and hang out on Lemmy instead.

You'll probably be scraped by AI bots anyway, but we have penguins and Star Trek memes. And knives.

IDGAF about LLM bots scraping public forums, they are public and available to anyone. I do mind them scraping shadow libraries, and training on copywritten material, which they should not do

If I'm going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I'd like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn't discourage me.

You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.

As someone who is enthusiastic about old cars the amount of knowledge that disappeared when forums got killed by fb is immeasurable. At least A.I might preserve some knowledge.

When people die they take their knowledge with them if nobody writes it down and maintains it.

This implies Discord will not use messages sent to train AI.

Porque no los dos?

Discord is targeting an IPO by end of year. I doubt the AI bubble bursts by then.

Anyone wanna bet against their valuation being based on AI training data value?

Oh my dude, that second ship sailed decades ago.

Time was there was really just one place (maybe two) where you could find an answer to a question. (Usenet mostly.)

Now there's easily two dozen at least, from SO/SE, Quora, Yahoo Answers, all the way to Reddit subs....

The balkanization of information. It screwed the knowledge of the public, but it made a few people super rich. Whee