Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
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#2How are these worth $100k?
I assume non-failed companies are selling as well. And I guess there’s lots of irc scraping going on.
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#3I hate every bit about this madness.
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#4How are these worth $100k? I assume non-failed companies are selling as well. And I guess there’s lots of irc scraping going on.
It's like low-background radiation steel. There's a finite amount of information out there that's not ai garbage, and the percentage of scrapeable information that isn't tainted grows smaller by the moment.
I imagine this trend will continue, and the price will go up.
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#5How are these worth $100k? I assume non-failed companies are selling as well. And I guess there’s lots of irc scraping going on.
non-failed companies may still not want 3rd parties in their chat
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#6Oh good! Training your AI on the human interactions between people at a failed company will lead to success, right? Great!
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#8Previously (40 points, 6 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801494
(42 points, 5 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811748