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Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost

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139 points exists | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 20:16 UTC | HN request time: 1.318s | source
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czk ◴[23 Jun 25 20:40 UTC] No.44359845[source]▶
I've often thought about the amount of data that these bot services must have access to (they could log millions of private channels), data thats silo'd away from search engines/indexers and could be pretty valuable to sell to someone training an AI model, or doing other things.

A while back there was a service called 'Spy Pet' that ran hundreds of discord bots selling access to searchable data logs. I wonder if discord is primarily concerned about the massive logging capability of services like these.

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1. paxys ◴[23 Jun 25 21:08 UTC] No.44360123[source]▶
After Reddit's API shutdown the writing was on the wall. Services like Reddit and Discord are huge data troves, and now this data has a concrete $$ value. Offering unrestricted API access means that third parties will store and sell this data. So shutting them down (and monetizing your data yourself) is an obvious decision. Slack recently changed its ToS to disallow this as well - https://www.reuters.com/business/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals....