AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups
40 points
1/21/1970
2 days ago
by harambae
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evil-olive
2 days ago
simianwords
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
2 days ago
blablabla123
This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?
2 days ago
Bombthecat
Alpha?
2 days ago
ej88
alpha is your abnormal rate of return
more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors
a day ago
chmod775
Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!
2 days ago
kittikitti
Slop in, slop out.
2 days ago
nitwit005
This is closer to failure in, failure out.
a day ago
kushie
yeah but it's my slop!
2 days ago
actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...