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There's a gold rush for old Slack chats, work emails

Struggling startups are finding a new way to cash out: selling years of internal Slack chatter and email threads to companies ...
Engadget

Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models

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. Making ...
TechCrunch

Slack’s former head of machine learning wants to put AI in reach of every company

Adam Oliner, co-founder and CEO of Graft used to run machine learning at Slack, where he helped build the company’s internal artificial intelligence infrastructure. Slack lacked the resources of a ...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

One company, AfterQuery, sells a series of off-the-shelf “worlds” to AI labs, with names such as “Big Tech World”, “Finance ...
FOX8 Cleveland

What Slack, GoPro and Upwork Have In Common: Harnessing AI for Corporate Learning

While many learning and development (L&D) practitioners are still scrambling to incorporate AI into their training and learning programmes, global companies such as Slack, GoPro, and Upwork have ...
HR Dive

Slack’s ‘Ranger Week’ of training could represent a growing trend

Slack relieved employees of some duties last week in order to dedicate time toward achieving “Ranger status” on parent company Salesforce’s Trailhead platform in a move that could become a more common ...
HotHardware

Users Freak Out As Slack Is Caught Snooping Messages To Train Its AI

Even though Slack proudly touts its Slack AI feature as helpful time-savers, users are questioning how the software gets its job done. One user pointed out just how invasive Slack AI can be, using ...