If you were in a public Discord any time over the past decade, you weren’t just chatting with your friends—you were ...

As reported by The Register, the internet-scraping company Spy.pet has been actively harvesting data from Discord since November of last year. In the time since, it has collected over four billion ...

Discord's latest Transparency Report notes it received over 56,000 bullying and harassment reports between April and June 2023 alone. Based on this report data, harassment is the biggest problem ...

But many Discord users many not expect their messages, server memberships, bans, or other data to be grabbed by ... indication of the reach of Spy Pet's scraping, it's an effective warning ...

Discord servers can be freely created by users ... large-scale language models)' and 'you may not mine or scrape any data, content, or information available on or through the Discord Service.' ...

404Media initially broke the story, reporting that an online service called Spy Pet was scraping over 10,000 servers throughout Discord. The massive amount of data accumulated from this activity ...

Discord banned accounts tied to Spy.Pet, a website known for mining and selling millions of users' messages. Spy.Pet used bots to scrape data from 14,000 servers, affecting nearly 620 million ...

If you use Apple, Google, or any major online platform, it’s time to sit up and take notice. A staggering 184 million ...

A Discord spokesperson told Ars that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it. "Scraping ... Spy Pet data on Kiwi ...

Their team has explained that their services have not been compromised and the claims regarding their data security practices ...

There has been an increased need for data to train large language models like ChatGPT ... Fidelity also reduced its valuation for Discord. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science ...