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Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

"Alright guys, it's time to leave Slack for a better alternative!"
Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
It happens again.
"Alright guys, it's time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!"
Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software, again.
It happens again, again.
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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It’s not no matter what. It’s under the system we have they are not only not punished for doing so, they are heavily incentivized to do so. There are ways to punish bad actors that de-incentivize other potential bad actors, our politicians actively choose to prioritize these bad actors ability to do harm over the well being of the population.

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