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Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by mrweasel » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:22 PM UTC

atomic128 wrote: post #80

Rumors that Anthropic is in talks to buy Atlassian, presumably for the training data. Data poisoning efforts are underway: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoisonFountain/comments/1sqrq24/atl...

I know at least two companies that won't be able to use Atlassian products anymore if that's the case. They really don't give a shit about privacy and regulatory requirements.

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by nyellin » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

Why does Atlassian need to train AI models?

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by CobrastanJorji » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, everybody else with both having-business-customers and also data-collecting businesses: "We swear that we absolutely will not collect/train our stuff on business customer data."

Atlassian: "Yolo!"

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by mrweasel » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

siva7 wrote: post #71

m4rtink wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm thinking it would be ideal if Broadcom buys Attlassian instead and pulls another VMware. Problem solved - for ever. ;-)

Oh what the.. i can't pay for a 2000$ max sub :/

I know of a company that's stuck on the datacenter edition, because they aren't allowed by some customers to store their data in the cloud. I can't imagine how much they must pay for that.

Until they finish evaluating competitors, and eventually migrate to .... something, they are completely stuck. Jira is at the heart of all of their workflows and they cannot and will not move to cloud. This was an Atlassian partner, but they got screwed over on that part as well.

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by rdedev » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

martinald wrote: post #4

Atlassian just goes from misstep to misstep. I still use their products quite often. The amount of P0 bugs I experience is absolutely crazy: - Bitbucket workers are hopelessly out of date (self hosted). We've had to put so many random workarounds in especially for Docker, as they don't keep them up to date enough - I have had a bug in JIRA for years where I can't reorder a new ticket unless I refresh the page - Every…

Here mine: you cannot link an existing branch to a jira issue. Maybe this is easier said than done but I can't find their reasoning anywhere

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by everdrive » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

Who wouldn't these days. Just assume if a company has your data it's training AI on it. No company cares about your privacy more than they do their profits. Not a one.

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by odie5533 » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:46 PM UTC

nyellin wrote: post #92

Why does Atlassian need to train AI models?

Rumor is they're being bought by Anthropic.

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by zelphirkalt » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

Oh another piece of the abysmal tools stack that should bite the dust. Maybe I will still see a software job without terrible tooling in the EU.

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by willis936 » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

danny_codes wrote: post #79

willis936 wrote: post #27

Presumably the government and HIPAA carveouts are for legal obligations. Trade secret theft is illegal so I wonder why they're not considering this.

Maybe if you put your data in Atlassian the you failed to adequately protect your trade secret? IIRC you need to make a reasonable effort to protect the secret.

Establishing MNDAs is considered reasonable effort and this is a policy update that basically says "we are ignoring all MNDAs".

Re: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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Post by hungryhobbit » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC

HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #68

rurp wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I tried their AI stuff on the free trial, didn't work at all, tried to cancel, can't cancel the free trial online and had to write a load of support tickets (of which the support ticket contact form bugged out multiple times). Absolutely insane that this is legal. The only reason to do this is to trick and abuse customers. It would be trivially easy to legislate away if our government cared to. Atlassian seems like…

>> internal corruption and incompetence can run rampant This affliction happens to almost every company, eventually. Nobody seems to have solved this.

Enshitification