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AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups

• kittikitti 6mo ago
  Slop in, slop out.
  • kushie 6mo ago
    yeah but it's my slop!
  • nitwit005 6mo ago
    This is closer to failure in, failure out.
• evil-olive 6mo ago
  actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...
• simianwords 6mo 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 6mo ago
    This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?
  • Bombthecat 6mo ago
    Alpha?
    • ej88 6mo ago
      alpha is your abnormal rate of return more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors
• never_inline 6mo ago
  Krazam vindicated https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc
• chmod775 6mo ago
  Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!