Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training
elrik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I mostly agree in general, but in Slack case there is a lot of proprietary information involved, so they might have some more serious legal issues.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is %100 going to get them in legal trouble with companies who used the platform to share data. It’d be like if Microsoft started using teams messages, from companies who use it at an enterprise level, to train LLMs on. This was a really dumb move from slack and I have no clue what legal team gave the green light on this.