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>Slack originally stored the history forever, but will now delete it after 1 year. >This is actually a good development, because the next logical step from a l
by htrp 2y ago
>Slack originally stored the history forever, but will now delete it after 1 year.
>This is actually a good development, because the next logical step from a large corporation's perspective would be to use this trove of user data for training LLMs or selling it to a third party (like Reddit, Stack Overflow etc. have done), and they can't do that now.
Except you can envision a world where its no longer recoverable (for you) and also still available for LM training
- jv22222 2y agoAgree, there is no reason they can't keep the data. They likely will, probably just going to be a soft delete anyway. This is most likely driven by the sales team to squeeze a few more conversions.
- paxys 2y agoIs there a reason to believe that they are knowingly violating their ToS and privacy policies, lying in communication and using user data illegally?
- Detrytus 2y agoIsn't that what all the Silicon Valley companies are doing by default, until caught?
- bunderbunder 2y agoI'm trying to imagine what it must be like to believe that a company you're depending on, for a product that is either non-essential or has viable alternatives, is that untrustworthy, but still continue to rely on them for managing private communication.
- koito17 2y agoI'm not relying on Slack, I'm using Slack because my workplace forces me to use it. I still remember the days when Slack was little more than IRC with a coat of paint. You could actually connect to Slack via IRC clients, and that went away with the introduction of "Teams" around 2016. In any case, I would prefer company-internal tooling for company-internal communications over some SaaS any day. But I'm not the one in power to make these decisions. So over the years I've used Slack under the assumption everything I write on it will be data mined, sold, and now used for training LLMs.
- paxys 2y ago[flagged]