AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups (opens in new tab)

(twitter.com)

40 pointsharambae1mo ago10 comments

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evil-olive1mo ago

actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...

never_inline1mo ago

Krazam vindicated

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc

simianwords1mo ago

This is extremely good news and they should also buy their codebase. There’s a lot of alpha in buying dead people’s WhatsApp chat history and so on

blablabla1231mo ago

This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?

Bombthecat1mo ago

Alpha?

ej881mo ago

alpha is your abnormal rate of return

more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors

chmod7751mo ago

Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!

kittikitti1mo ago

Slop in, slop out.

nitwit0051mo ago

This is closer to failure in, failure out.

kushie1mo ago

yeah but it's my slop!

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