Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
24 points
1/21/1970
a day ago
by CGMthrowaway
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hank808
a day ago
gnabgib
Previously (40 points, 6 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801494
(42 points, 5 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811748
a day ago
prepend
How are these worth $100k?
I assume non-failed companies are selling as well. And I guess there’s lots of irc scraping going on.
a day ago
nyc_data_geek1
It's like low-background radiation steel. There's a finite amount of information out there that's not ai garbage, and the percentage of scrapeable information that isn't tainted grows smaller by the moment.
I imagine this trend will continue, and the price will go up.
a day ago
NullPrefix
non-failed companies may still not want 3rd parties in their chat
a day ago
8954789543547
Does that include Gawker?
a day ago
gherkinnn
I hate every bit about this madness.
a day ago
Oh good! Training your AI on the human interactions between people at a failed company will lead to success, right? Great!