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▲AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups (twitter.com)
40 points by harambae 2 days ago | 10 comments
evil-olive 2 days ago [-]
actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...
never_inline 2 days ago [-]
Krazam vindicated

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc

simianwords 2 days ago [-]
This is extremely good news and they should also buy their codebase. There’s a lot of alpha in buying dead people’s WhatsApp chat history and so on
blablabla123 2 days ago [-]
This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?
Bombthecat 2 days ago [-]
Alpha?
ej88 2 days ago [-]
alpha is your abnormal rate of return

more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors

chmod775 2 days ago [-]
Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!
kittikitti 2 days ago [-]
Slop in, slop out.
nitwit005 2 days ago [-]
This is closer to failure in, failure out.
kushie 2 days ago [-]
yeah but it's my slop!
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