Discord destroyed the ChatGPT-based chatbot it launched less than a year ago

The hype around ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence does not produce successful results in all its implementations. Discord reported that soon will turn off Clydechatbot based on OpenAI technology, launched less than a year ago.

The reasons for this drastic decision have not been publicly disclosed, at least for now. Discord only notified Clyde’s decommissioning via a warning in the bot’s support section. According to him, the tool will be available until the end of November.

“Clyde will be shut down at the end of the month. As of December 1, 2023, users will no longer be able to call Clyde in private messages, group direct messages, or server chats. Thanks for your support and feedback. We are constantly working to bring you new features and experiences,” they noted from Discord.

Without a doubt, this is a rather interesting definition. The platform announced the release of a chatbot powered by ChatGPT in early March last year, at the height of the hype around the technology. The company itself then noted that Clyde barely the first step towards making Discord a home for artificial intelligence.

Let’s keep in mind that this feature was free and server admins could enable it on their channels. The original idea for Discord was to test it with a limited number of users and then expand the testing to more people. However, it’s unclear how far the platform went before abandoning the idea.

Discord says goodbye to Clyde, its ChatGPT-powered chatbot

Regardless of the reasons for this decision, Discord disabling its ChatGPT chatbot is no small matter. Let’s keep in mind that It’s only been 8 months between the release of this feature and the announcement of its discontinuation.

Does this mean Discord is slowing down the adoption of AI-powered generative features? Not necessary. Although perhaps this is proof that not every technology implementation, no matter how popular and successful it may be, is necessarily successful.

Without detailed information about Clyde’s deactivation, we don’t know whether Discord encountered a technical problem or whether the ChatGPT-based chatbot simply did not gain support among users. Perhaps in the future the company’s engineers will try their luck again with a new solution of this type, or decide to implement it as an exclusive feature for those who pay for a Nitro subscription.

For now, Clyde cancellation This doesn’t appear to affect the other AI-powered generative tools Discord has introduced this year.. Let us remind you that the platform has the ability to summarize conversations in channels, group message flows by topic, and an automated moderation system. The latter, called AutoMod AI, also uses OpenAI artificial intelligence to notify moderators when users violate server rules.