Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies
Posted by doctaj 9 hours ago
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Comment by hyperadvanced 4 hours ago
It’s really funny to train your AI on the data of failed companies. My coworker made a similar joke that if we trained an AI on our data they’d think our core business is helping dumbass users reset their passwords or fixing linting errors.
Comment by stringfood 2 hours ago
maybe they can use this dataset to advise companies on what NOT to do
Comment by sudb 7 hours ago
I thought it was against Slack's ToS to exfiltrate data like this?
Also surely most of a startup's Slack activity is just fluff - is there some amount of preprocessing the AI companies have to do, I wonder.
Comment by Epa095 2 hours ago
How is the ToS relevant when the company is already bankrupt (IANAL)? Slack can cancel the customer-relationship with the bankrupt company, but that's it, no?
Comment by KuriousCat 9 hours ago
I was asked by someone today if there are such startups with COBOL based code bases...
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Comment by ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago