Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

We talk fairly openly about everything but passwords on slack....

First all companies were afraid of giving access to these models, for trade secret issues and security. But then they basically all met at the white house to agree that they would make way more fucking money stealing it than they would pay in restitution or damages to people and small businesses.

Suddenly everybody had a chatbot and generated art ready for commercial sale. They also had to make the shift quickly enough before official laws and protections (mostly from the EU) came in.

Now AI is plateauing a bit so they must hurry to get valuated at 10 trillion dollars and get their energy needs subsidized and have taxpayers invest into the nation's energy requirements on their behalf.

I doubt that most corporations would even consider allowing Slack as a trusted app if they weren't hosting their own instances themselves.

I have to assume that this training is exclusively on instances hosted on Slacks' servers. So probably lots of smaller businesses that don't know any better. And this was probably agreed to in the ToS as part of utilizing free and easy to set up cloud servers.

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

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.

The AI is paying more attention to your Slack messages than you are.

I don't know why everyone is all shocked all of a sudden, there have been various scraper bots collecting text info for...many years now, LONG before LLMs came onto the scene.

Always have been, apparently

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

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.

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.

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