Initially shared on Twitter (Sep 13, 2023)
I was just invited to Google's "Bard Discord community": "Bard's Discord is a private, invite-only server and is currently limited to a certain capacity."
A tiny % of the total users. It seems to include a
wide range of folks.
There is no disclosure re being research subjects.
The rules DO NOT say: 'The first rule of Bard Discord is: you do not talk about Bard Discord.'
I'm not going to discuss the users. But contextual integrity and researcher integrity suggests I provide some of the briefest notes.
The rules do include: "Do not post personal information."
(Which I suppose I'm breaking by using my default Discord profile. This is likely more about protecting users from each other though, since Google verifies your email when you join.)
Does Google's privacy policy cover you on
Google's uses of third party products?
There are channels like "suggestion-box' and "bug-reports', and prompt-chat' (Share and discuss your best prompts here with your fellow Bard Community members! Feel free to include screenshots...)
I'll confess it is pretty awkward being in there, with our paper—"Search quality complaints and imaginary repair: Control in articulations of Google Search"[1]—at top of mind.
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1. [https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221136505](https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221136505)
A lot of the newer search systems that I'm studying use Discord for community management. And I've joined several.