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The gold rush for data is wild. Private companies selling us out. - Slack - Discord - Reddit - Stackoverflow Let’s just hope this data gold rush dies out f

by xyst 2y ago

The gold rush for data is wild. Private companies selling us out. - Slack - Discord - Reddit - Stackoverflow Let’s just hope this data gold rush dies out faster than the web3 craze before OpenAI reaches critical mass and gets access to government server farms. Alphabet boys have server farms of domestic and foreign surveillance and intelligence. Exabytes of data [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
I mean slack is sold off. Founders made money. For all intents and purposes it's dead software.
- Liquix 2y ago
  proprietary software that no one who cares about privacy or security should use? absolutely. dead? not exactly
- smileysteve 2y ago
  It's owned by Salesforce;n if they stop growing it, it'll go the way of Heroku - and that breach didn't go well.
- eggdaft 2y ago
  I actually think Slack is great and it has improved over the last 12 months.
- whywhywhywhy 2y ago
  The data it has is incredibly valuable if they build their own product or sell it off. You essentially have org charts of entire companies and people asking for things and getting responses and working back and forth together long term. In terms of building agents for doing real work this could be more valuable than things like Reddit.
bigstrat2003 2y ago
Don't forget Dropbox: https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734890651378975007 https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734890651378975007
- BHSPitMonkey 2y ago
  That thread was a mischaracterization and a misunderstanding. The toggle simply exposed UI entry points to AI integrations that users could then opt to use, with consent.
DanielKokotajlo 2y ago
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TechDebtDevin 2y ago
Meh, tbh I think these guys live in a bit of a dream world about how much their data is worth. While investors and corporate partners will rush to these companies for their data, I'm not really convinced random internet conversations are going to push anything forward but let them sell shovels. Most of the miners always go broke.
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by xyst 2y ago

ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago

I mean slack is sold off. Founders made money. For all intents and purposes it's dead software.

Liquix 2y ago
proprietary software that no one who cares about privacy or security should use? absolutely. dead? not exactly
smileysteve 2y ago
It's owned by Salesforce;n if they stop growing it, it'll go the way of Heroku - and that breach didn't go well.
eggdaft 2y ago
I actually think Slack is great and it has improved over the last 12 months.
whywhywhywhy 2y ago
The data it has is incredibly valuable if they build their own product or sell it off. You essentially have org charts of entire companies and people asking for things and getting responses and working back and forth together long term. In terms of building agents for doing real work this could be more valuable than things like Reddit.

bigstrat2003 2y ago

Don't forget Dropbox: https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734890651378975007 https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734890651378975007

BHSPitMonkey 2y ago
That thread was a mischaracterization and a misunderstanding. The toggle simply exposed UI entry points to AI integrations that users could then opt to use, with consent.

DanielKokotajlo 2y ago

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TechDebtDevin 2y ago

Meh, tbh I think these guys live in a bit of a dream world about how much their data is worth. While investors and corporate partners will rush to these companies for their data, I'm not really convinced random internet conversations are going to push anything forward but let them sell shovels. Most of the miners always go broke.

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