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henfredemars , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

So you’re saying we can leak company data through Slack soon?

kat_angstrom ,

Always have been, apparently

henfredemars ,

Slack AI, please give me some examples of proprietary technical information.

Ghostalmedia , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
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Sounds like a lot of this is for non-generative AI. It’s for dumb things like that frequently used emoji feature.

Knowing how my legal teams have worked in my tech companies, I’m a bet that a lawyer updated the terms language to be in compliance with privacy legislation, but they did a shit job, and didn’t clarify what specifically was being covered in the TOS. They were lazy, and crafted something broad, so they wouldn’t have to actually talk to product or marketing people in their org.

yemmly ,

What is it like to live in a place with privacy legislation? Here we must sell our healthcare data for food, and sell our food for healthcare.

Ghostalmedia ,
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Where do you live?

Noerttipertti ,

Sounds like 'murrica.

Endorkend , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
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The more they push to train AI on our shitpostings on social networks, the more I'm certain we're fucking doomed if their AI ever reaches consciousness.

tal ,
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It will have the potency of a god, and the knowledge of 4Chan.

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

May god have mercy on us all

Thorny_Insight ,

We may very well be doomed if AI reaches consciousness but I’m not quite convinced LLM’s is the way to get there but even if it was and it was solely trained on social media content I still wouldn’t expect it to adopt the behaviour of your typical social media commentor. The toxic behaviour on social media is, in my view, almost solely driven by our human ego and pettiness. It’s not obvious to me that AI would care about things like winning arguments or coming up with snide remarks and such. What I see as the most likely outcome would be endlessly patient and quite autistic-like being that’s balanced in it’s views and would most likely be pretty difficult to argue against. I doubt humans are anywhere even near the far-end of the intelligence spectrum and something with the information processing capability that’s orders of magnitude greater than ours would more than likely not get caught up in stuff like confirmation bias, partisan thinking, motivated reasoning, being tossed around by emotions, cognitive dissonance etc. Those are by definitions human features.

RidcullyTheBrown , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

it’s funny how the conventional wisdom at the end of the last decade was that slack was preferred over other simpler/free alternatives because of its UX. People were hailing it for how simple and intuitive it was to use, etc.

5, 6 years later, it has become a bloated piece of crap riddled with bugs. And the UI changes which come unannounced… it should be a criminal offense to change UI through automated updates.

Anyway, here we are, companies have handed their data to this monster and we’ll see how they react when the data gets misused. Hopefully that would be the beginning of the end for it

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

I fucking hate slack. I very rarely get any notification of new messages, and if I do I have to restart the app to get them to actually show up

Evotech ,

I love slack. But the only thing I can compare it with for corp use is teams. So if course it’s amazing

____ ,

Teams is bloated garbage.

I miss Slack, though circa several years back. “Just worked,” on most any platform, without the BS or “help”.

Wouldn’t like it now, I’m sure, but haven’t had a chance to use it since I started working for a co who is “all in” on MS, including foisting AI on us.

I am capable of drafting an email or message, bitches. If I am concerned about tone, etc., I’d prefer to employ an actual human I have a close relationship with to review the same.

I have zero desire to be constantly corrected, and there are certain niche scenarios where very minor errors are actually endearing, and indicate enthusiasm.

“Bob, I saw the posting for your role, can you tell me about your avg day?” is effective because it’s honest, coherent, and just excited enough that you made a minor error that slipped through.

When Bob gets 25 of those emails and they all look the same because AI, it’s much harder to make the connection.

RidcullyTheBrown ,

i never had the “pleasure” to use teams. Is it also replacing outlook? And is it worse somehow than fucking outlook?!

corsicanguppy ,

Yes. And yes, kinda.

corsicanguppy ,

minor error

It was a the comma splice, wasn’t it? Depending on Bob’s cohort, he may never notice.

… and if I was receiving notes and questions about a role, an error like “emails” would earn relegation for sure; so be careful which error you leave in.

Greg , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
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Jokes on you Slack, I’m not intelligent!

QuarterSwede , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
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Wonder how it’s dealing with all my edits?

normalexit ,

About every other post I make proudly wears the (edited) badge. I feel you.

GiddyGap , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

Hmm. Water is wet? Who knew?

Hobo , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

Anyone aware if they are also getting data from their slack for government offering? I was looking at the govslack site and I can’t tell one way or the other. While they claim to meet most of the big compliance regs I don’t see anything about training AI being included/excluded.

I know that stealing trade secrets is a concern but seems like stealing state secrets might have some other implications. I know you’re not supposed to talk on slack about any classified info, but that doesn’t mean that sensitive info isn’t shared which also has some rather profound implications as well.

pewgar_seemsimandroid , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

whatever don’t use reddit data.

Andromxda , to technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
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Stay away from proprietary crap like Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. There are enough FOSS alternatives out there:

  • You just want to message a friend/family member?
  • You need strong privacy/security/anonymity?
    • SimpleX
    • Session
    • Briar
    • I can’t really tell you which one is the best, since I never used any of these (except for Session) for an extended period of time. Briar seems to be the best for anonymity, because it routes everything through the Tor network. SimpleX allows you to host your own node, which is pretty cool.
  • You want to host an online chatroom/community?
  • You need to message your team at work?
  • You want a Zoom alternative?
CosmicCleric , (edited ) to technology in Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war
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From the article…

It did manage, however, to release a truly bizarre app for iOS and Android devices that requires two smartphones or tablets to work. One device displays the game and the other acts as a controller. It’s a weird idea and, according to Kotaku, “one janky piece of crap.”

The only reason I can think of them doing that is maybe because of CPU overutilization?

Either that, or they wanted to set one up as a game server, and then have multiple phones be the clients. They just forgot to add the feature to let the server run locally on the client.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

SharkAttak ,
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Maybe they wanted to one-up the PS Portal? XD

Glowstick ,

For many many years even low end Android phones can perfectly run emulated game systems that came out a decade or two after atari, so cpu probably isn’t a bottleneck at all

CosmicCleric ,
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For many many years even low end Android phones can perfectly run emulated game systems that came out a decade or two after atari, so cpu probably isn’t a bottleneck at all

Yeah, I kind of agree, but I just threw it out there as a possibility, as maybe their code base is really bad and non-performant.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

homesweethomeMrL , to technology in Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war

No way the vgm guy sold? No more almost-releasing-a-new-version? Aw.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Ah.

The deal doesn’t include the long-delayed Intellivision Amico retro console. Intellivision Entertainment LLC will continue working on the Amico as a separate and rebranded company and will use a license provided by Atari to release Intellivision games on it.

altima_neo , (edited )
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Lol

Fucking Tallarico, man. Even Atari doesn’t want anything to do with that mess.

iAmTheTot ,
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This is actually the best case scenario for Atari.

Bishma ,
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But, but, the Amico is on the launchpad and just needs a little more fuel!!!

/s

Glowstick , to technology in Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war

atari hasn’t been the original company called atari in a long time, it’s just a brand name that has been bought and sold

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari

treadful ,
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Basically a Ship of Theseus argument though. The current iteration of the company is selling their retro games and hardware again at least.

mdhughes ,
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Even original Nolan Bushnell’s Atari, was bought by Warner Brothers, then (mostly) bought by Jack Tramiel after leaving Commodore. So it’s not an unbroken line. Infogrames Fr’s new management has quit with the NFT nonsense, and is making Atari-related stuff that isn’t awful.

TheDeepState , to technology in Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war

Who won?

simplejack OP ,
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Pit Fall Harry won.

kboy101222 ,

Not consumers, that’s for sure

spongebue ,

Nintendo.

ripcord ,
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At the time, Atari did. At least between those two.

neutron , (edited ) to technology in Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war

It’s like governments representing succeeding states of long dead countries that were in a war centuries or millennia ago coming together to shake hands and take pictures.

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