Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models
www.engadget.com
Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default.
  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

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

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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?