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Discord is adding AI to its platform in the form of ChatGPT and generative art, which will manifest as a chatbot and options to manage chats and create custom avatar profiles.<\/p>\n

Discord plans to roll out a public ChatGPT-powered chatbot named \u201cClyde\u201d beginning next week, alongside a new technology to summarize Discord chats in a sidebar, called conversation summaries. This Friday, Discord will update its AutoMod automatic moderation bot to include AI-powered moderation, examining the content of moderated chats to determine if a server\u2019s rules are being followed. All three are considered public experiments, with updated, further rollouts to come later.<\/p>\n

Discord also showed off early progress in two new features it hopes to add later: the ability to \u201cremix\u201d Discord avatars, as well as an updated real-time whiteboard feature that can take sketches and transform them into generative AI art, via a prompt.<\/p>\n

It might seem like most applications are hurriedly adding AI to their core functions, though Discord was on the cutting edge, early on. Midjourney\u2019s AI art generator<\/a> uses Discord as its only UI, in part because Midjourney chief executive David Holz led a self-funded team and didn\u2019t have the time or resources to invest in a UI or social media model, he said during a briefing. Discord disclosed that Midjourney has 13 million subscribers as of March 2023. Slack, a Discord rival in the productivity space, has also announced an AI-powered chatbot<\/a>, and Google and Microsoft have already launched their own AI-powered search<\/a> or plan to<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tAuthor: Mark Hachman<\/a>, Senior Editor\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nAs PCWorld’s senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n