Discord bot reviews show privacy worries that star ratings hide
Original title: Measuring Users' Security and Privacy Concerns About Third-Party Community Bots on Discord
Of 183,142 reviews, 8,832 were security and privacy relevant; confession bots exceeded a 50 percent yield.
Researchers analyzed 23,102 third-party Discord bots and reviews from 2021 to 2026. A fine-tuned DeBERTa classifier, then manually checked, kept 8,832 security and privacy reviews, a 4.82 percent pipeline yield. Data Sharing and Data Collection dominated, while permission count and administrator status correlated weakly. They also built BotLens, a Model Context Protocol server with six auditing tools.
- Reviews spanned 49 detected languages.
- Data Sharing was 30.5 percent and Data Collection 16.2 percent of those reviews.
- Confession and anonymity bots had pipeline yields above 50 percent.
- BotLens supports bot checkups, server comparison, and AI-agent integration.
- AI models
- DeBERTa
From the original article
1 min read at arxiv.orgThird-party community-based bots are central to how social platforms such as Discord work. They moderate content, manage roles, play music, and support AI-assisted conversations across millions of servers.
By Kofi Ampomah · arxiv.org
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