AI is the future. At least on Discord it’s over.
Originally created for gamers, the messaging application has become Generation Z’s favorite online hangout destination and is now rolling out many artificial intelligence-powered features.
in the announcement(opens in new tab) On Thursday, Discord shared what’s coming to the platform soon: AI chatbots, automated AI moderators, conversation summarizers, avatar remixers, and whiteboards. Some of these features will begin rolling out today, March 9th. More features will be released in the coming weeks or months.
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While AI has gone mainstream thanks to the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, Discord has had an active AI community for quite some time. The company says its third-party AI apps already on its platform have more than 30 million monthly users. Discord’s nearly 3 million servers have some AI elements integrated into the community.
In fact, Discord’s largest community is Midjourney. This is a text-to-image AI project that allows users to generate art directly from within the server. According to Discord, Midjourney’s server has more than 13 million members.
So, with AI already an integral part of Discord, it seemed only a matter of time before Discord itself would start introducing AI directly into the platform.
Auto mode AI
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The first feature coming to select Discord servers starting today is AutoMod AI. Discord already has an AutoMod feature that basically automatically moderates the admin’s room based on server rules. Allows moderators to be contacted if they believe a rule may be broken. According to Discord, AutoMod AI can also consider the context of conversations, so users aren’t penalized for misleading posts, for example.
Clyde is a bot already familiar to Discord users, with an AI upgrade starting next week. The Clyde bot now provides information such as server his error his message and also responds to timeout or ban requests from users and mods. However, that’s pretty much all Clyde can do. until now.
Clyde
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Clyde will be able to answer all kinds of questions from users, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. Users simply type “@Clyde” followed by a prompt. Clyde can pull information or find a specific emoji or GIF of him based on a user’s description.
Another AI feature coming to Discord next week is conversation summaries. Again, the name pretty much describes what it does. With users all over the world, many Discord channels are always active regardless of the time of day. Conversation summaries allow users to catch up on what they may have missed on the Discover server. Powered by AI, this feature “bundles” chats into topics so users can easily read the most interesting ones.
Conversation summary
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Starting today, developers can get started with Avatar Remix, an open-source Discord app that integrates AI art into messaging apps. Avatar Remix allows users to change the avatars of fellow users “with the power of generative image models”. what do you mean? In the demo Discord showed her Mashable, users could add a party girlfriend’s hat or mustache to their friend’s avatar by simply mentioning their username and describing what changes they would like to make. I was.
avatar remix
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The company has also launched an “AI Incubator” to support developers building AI-powered apps on Discord.
Finally, Discord has revealed that it will soon be rolling out a whiteboard feature that has been long requested by the Discord community. Of course, this is more than just a collaborative whiteboard feature. Using AI, users will be able to co-create her AI art and more.
