Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

I can't imagine how many legal departments shit themselves over this one. IP security as well. what the fuuuu

This is another one of those situations where for them (and every other company with access to similar content) the upside is just too much money to ignore.

What is the downside? Lost customers? No problem, they'll charge the remaining customers more for new premium features based on the newly trained models. Also if they didn't develop those features in the first place, a competitor would have pulled away customers anyways.

Fines from some government for the egregious violation of a TBD law relating to AI that doesn't even exist yet? Lol, just the cost of business.

And policy changes? Who actually believes they'll discard the model parameters they've already spent presumably millions of dollars training?