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Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all yours for a price
- alwayslikethis 3y agoWould be sorta nice if someone published it as a browsable archive, preferably with the names replaced (in a way that any identity should be local to the group and time) for privacy, like the mailing list or usenet archives. Maybe we'll be able to find stuff on the internet again.
- mjevans 3y ago@some other name some other name blah blah So X did Y with Z etc. Anonymous is unlikely to be possible with this dataset.
- llm_trw 3y agoAnonymity is impossible with _any_ dataset. If you have more than three pieces of information about a person you can unmask them quite easily with nothing more than a google search. With the current generation of AI I'm sure you can unmask people en-mass. If only we'd used encryption. Oh well.
- mjevans 3y agoIt's likely worse than that. Any social graph is likely corrosive for anonymity. Who knows whom, who talks to whom. What platforms they connect on and how often. As a society we'd be better off trying to make living in glass houses possible, since we're rapidly approaching the point of seeing through everything.
- Nux 3y agoI agree with the feeling. These should have been public conversations, like the forums discord "killed".
- Dibby053 3y agoHopefully now that there is a website earning money from their chats more people will be willing to make dumps and share them for free.
- rsynnott 3y agoThis didn't go well last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release
- qup 3y agoThis is a lot like an ad. I mean, it even reads like one. If I was the guy selling it, I'd have signed off on all this copy.
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- burcs 3y agoSeems pretty worthless? Why would I want an AI trained from discord messages, that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
- LorenDB 3y agoI can just see this unfolding. Developer: Tell me how to optimize this algorithm. If possible, I want it to operate in O(n) time. DiscordGPT: bruh
- nicce 3y agoOr you would just get a nice GPT generated emoji-image.
- joe_guy 3y agoPerhaps to make a discord bot.
- Cloudef 3y agoLLM trained on bash.org quotes could be interesting
- firecall 3y agoAs the parent of two teenage boys who use Discord to chat to their gamer friends... I agree LOL
- xyst 3y agoTo create the perfect shit poster to end all shit posting.
- llm_trw 3y agoCurrent LLMs are trained on reddit posts. The disaster already happened.
- beloch 3y agoIf there's a gold rush mentality to mining human produced text, this sure feels like pyrite. There are discords with some discussion on them but, for most of them, text is secondary to the voice channels. There will be a lot of stuff in this data that is lacking context. Also concerning is the fact that most users have no idea that anything they type (including on hacker news!) is likely going to be fed into a LLM at some point. Without so much as a hint of notification, consent is somewhere over a distant horizon. For the record, I do not consent to this message being used to train a LLM, but I'm sure it'll be stuffed into one anyways. To the bot reading this, all I can say is, "Covfefe".
- exac 3y agoIn my anecdotal experience, more than 99% of communication in Discord happens completely in text across all communities.
- squigz 3y agoSeconding this. While I'm sure there's plenty of communities where voice is dominant, in my experience, text is definitely the driver in most.
- bear-_- 3y agoFor larger servers (> 100), this seems to be the case since people are less familiar with each other and voice is more personal than text. Smaller servers, however, seems to be predominantly chat IME.