this myth is over a year old at this point (it started when discord introduced "external apps," which means you can add a bot to your account and use its commands in a server if it allows using external apps) but it must be said that this is Not True. discord has not secretly added any bots to your server. you are able to ban any account from a server if you use the ID, regardless of whether it's ever actually joined.
It also just betrays a deep ignorance of how tech works. If discord wants to read your logs, they will have a way to read your logs. No need to put bots into your servers for that, they own the platform you chat on do you think they need workarounds?
(general you, not directed at you op)
This post will almost certainly not gain the traction of the other one, but it's worth reblogging. Discord is a shitty platform that is desperate to add in AI features without causing a mass user exodus. But whipping up hysteria isn't helping anything. You won't hurt anything by preemptively banning some AI bots in your Discord server, but it isn't foiling Discord sneaking some AI bots into your server. They were likely never there to begin with.




















