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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.
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  • Ey ich frag doch nur@lemmy.world
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    So AI will help you to fail your own company

    • kambusha@sh.itjust.works
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      Now I can disappoint my parents in less than 10 seconds. Just like my girlfriends.

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    I can’t imagine an AI trained primarily on the communications of failed startups will be particularly effective.

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      Just do the complete opposite of what they did and you should be fine.

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        My start up didn’t have a rich CEO with rich parents to save them when they fail.

        Step 1: already be rich.

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          I mean… It’s definitely a solid first step

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          I want to found literally anything.

          Step 1: already be rich.

          Now that this is settled, startups (or any company for that matter) require significant up-front capital. The gate is creating a company and not the point where a company fails. Most of the time lots of funds or not companies going to the dogs will just be liquidated instead of resuscitated.

    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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      “synergize”

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    Now AI will participate in workplace theater for you!

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    Some of them are selling to equity firms do be cannibalized and advanced/destroyed, or weirder, radically rebranded. For example:

    • Be eco-friendly, online shoe company
    • Overextend like crazy by buying brick and mortar stores
    • Go broke and sell for pennies on the dollar
    • Be different company
    • Buy failed shoe company
    • Change name completely
    • Pivot to AI computing leases
    • Somehow buy billions in already wait listed technology for inflated prices
    • ???
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      I want to point out to other Lemmy users that this example it is not generic but it’s a real life example (allbirds)

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        Yeah I forgot to mention that part, thanks.

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    This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren’t getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

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      The employer owns everything you produce at work. Documents, code, emails, everything.

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    Lol are they trying to train an LLM to sound like a disgruntled worker at a failing company?

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    Krazam is calling the future

    https://youtu.be/IU4ByUbDKNc

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    My great startup idea is workable at last! Monetize your spam!!

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