Mar 14, 2023 23:00:00

Discord official withdraws the change even though the speculation that ``Discord's call content is collected'' spreads due to policy change

In March 2023, Discord

announced several AI features such as 'the ability to chat with AI' and 'the ability to summarize conversations with AI'. However, due to the change in privacy policy that was implemented at the same time as the announcement of these AI functions, speculation that `` Discord may collect call content and use it for AI development '' has spread. Did. Discord has since updated its privacy policy to address the issue.

Privacy Policy | Discord
https://discord.com/privacy

Discord's AI features violate our privacy, and it's time we pushed back | TechRadar
https://www.techradar.com/opinion/discords-ai-features-violate-our-privacy-and-its-time-we-pushed-back

The AI functions announced by Discord in March 2023 include a wide variety of functions, including ``function to chat with AI,'' ``function to summarize conversations with AI,'' ``function to detect unauthorized users with AI,'' and ``function to generate images with AI.'' over. The details of each function are explained in detail in the following articles.

Discord will be equipped with AI functions such as ``chat with AI'', ``conversation summary with AI'', and ``image generation with AI'' - GIGAZINE

As mentioned above, Discord announced a number of AI features, but at the same time, they changed some of their privacy policies. This privacy policy change has led to criticism that it 'leads to the expansion of the scope of information collected from users.' The changes in the privacy policy that became a problem are as follows.

First of all, if you check the `` past privacy policy (February 25, 2022 version)'' published by Discord, in the item related to the collection of user-generated content, ``We generally use video or voice calls and voice channels. We do not store content, and if we change it in the future (e.g. to facilitate content moderation), we will notify you in advance.” Contents such as 'do not save the video' and 'notify in advance when changing the policy' are included.

However, when

checking the privacy policy rewritten in March 2023 with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine , the sentences ``do not save user's voice and video'' and ``notify in advance when changing the policy'' have been deleted. . This privacy change has spread speculation among users that ``Discord may have decided to collect user audio and video for the development of AI.''

Discord has updated its privacy policy again amid growing privacy concerns among users. At the time of writing the article, the text of ``do not save the user's audio and video'' and ``notify in advance when changing the policy'' has been revived as follows.

Along with the update of the privacy policy, Discord told the overseas media 'TechRadar', 'When we changed the wording of the privacy policy, we inadvertently caused user confusion.' However, OpenAI does not collect any information from Discord users.The AI features, like other features, only collect the information specified in our Privacy Policy and only use voice and video calls. We will not collect the contents, ”he said, admitting that the change in the privacy policy was an error.