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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: 0.514s | 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. cedws ◴[24 Jun 25 09:28 UTC] No.44364308[source]▶
Some of them are absolutely up to dodgy stuff, they have access to countless private chats in servers where the users/admins are unaware messages are being sent to a third party. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these bots are ran by state actors.