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Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies (fastcompany.com)
hyperadvanced 3 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.
stringfood 43 minutes ago [-]
maybe they can use this dataset to advise companies on what NOT to do
sudb 6 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.

Epa095 33 minutes 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?
KuriousCat 7 hours ago [-]
I was asked by someone today if there are such startups with COBOL based code bases...
DANmode 4 hours ago [-]
Go on.
doctaj 8 hours ago [-]
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