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The gold rush for data is wild. Private companies selling us out.

- Slack

- Discord

- Reddit

- Stackoverflow

Let’s just hope this data gold rush dies out faster than the web3 craze before OpenAI reaches critical mass and gets access to government server farms.

Alphabet boys have server farms of domestic and foreign surveillance and intelligence. Exabytes of data [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

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Don't forget Dropbox: https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734890651378975007

That thread was a mischaracterization and a misunderstanding. The toggle simply exposed UI entry points to AI integrations that users could then opt to use, with consent.

I mean slack is sold off. Founders made money. For all intents and purposes it's dead software.

proprietary software that no one who cares about privacy or security should use? absolutely. dead? not exactly

It's owned by Salesforce;n if they stop growing it, it'll go the way of Heroku - and that breach didn't go well.

I actually think Slack is great and it has improved over the last 12 months.

The data it has is incredibly valuable if they build their own product or sell it off. You essentially have org charts of entire companies and people asking for things and getting responses and working back and forth together long term.

In terms of building agents for doing real work this could be more valuable than things like Reddit.

Meh, tbh I think these guys live in a bit of a dream world about how much their data is worth. While investors and corporate partners will rush to these companies for their data, I'm not really convinced random internet conversations are going to push anything forward but let them sell shovels. Most of the miners always go broke.

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