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Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] Plume@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)
  1. "Alright guys, it's time to leave Slack for a better alternative!"
  2. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
  3. It happens again.
  4. "Alright guys, it's time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!"
  5. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software, again.
  6. It happens again, again.
  7. Clown moment.

It's what's going to happen. It's what always happens. And on a side note, by the way, I guaran-fucking-tee you that it's what's going to eventually happen with Discord as well. I have zero doubt about it.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

At this point, I think the genie is out of the bottle. I feel like unless you're on some p2p encrypted chat, anything typed into the internet is getting scraped. I'm sure everyone at this point has had at least one comment scraped and used for language model stuff.

I don't like it. But it seems like corporations will always find ways to make money off of other people no matter what

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I honestly don't get the outage over that. I feel like I'm in the minority on that, though. I don't care if linguistic statics are gathered from my public comments. Knock yourself out.

This story is about "private" messages on a free hosted service, and I think their users are just being naive if they think this is beyond the pale. But I get the feeling of violation at least a little.

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