On Thursday night's forum, popular gaming communication platform Discord said it would be sunsetting its Clyde AI chatbot in two weeks. Discord didn't say why Clyde is retiring, but said the chatbot is only in beta for a few servers.
“Clyde will be deactivated at the end of the month,” Discord said. As of December 1, 2023, users will no longer be able to call Clyde in DMS, group DMS, or server chats.
Decrypt has yet to respond to a request for comment.
Discord launched Clyde in May 2021 as a way for Discord server members to get answers to questions without the intervention of a human moderator. Clyde is a conversational AI program designed using OpenAI's suite of AI tools that can interact with users on a chatbot-enabled server.
Before the advent of AI, Discord was a playground for bots and other semi-autonomous services. The first Discord bots came online in December 2015 after a group of developers hacked the Discord API. Since then, bots have been an integral part of Discord server life.
Not including Clyde, there are thousands of bots active on Discord, many considered part of the normal deployment for a busy server. These include a chipbot that broadcasts music; MEE6, which provides social media alerts; and IdleRPG, which allows users to play games with friends. Discord bots have helped individuals seeking jobs in the blockchain industry find work.
Although rooted in the gaming community, Discord has long been the platform of choice for blockchain communities and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Again, bots like Collab Land will verify Discord moderators if a member continues to hold a token or NFT, which is necessary to maintain community membership.
The communication platform has become home to many AI art-generation communities and companies. If anyone wants to use the powerful Midjourney AI platform, a subscription and a Discord account are necessary after the company discontinued the free version of the AI image due to abuse.
Other Discord AI image generators include LimeWire's BlueWillow, Pika from Pika Labs, and OpenAI's Dall-E.
Web3 game developers use AI chatbots on Discord, including Alchemy: Battle for Ankhos, a text-based game that uses the Solana blockchain. Alchemy uses generative AI, which prompts Midjourney to create “art on demand.”
“Discord has a few advantages for building social games,” Alchemy: Battle for Ankhos creative director Alex Finden told Decrypt at SolanaPlayGG last summer. “One of those things is that all the gaming activities are in this interactive environment that people are already very comfortable with.”
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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