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

Oh good! Training your AI on the human interactions between people at a failed company will lead to success, right? Great!

Previously (40 points, 6 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801494

(42 points, 5 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811748

How are these worth $100k?

I assume non-failed companies are selling as well. And I guess there’s lots of irc scraping going on.

It's like low-background radiation steel. There's a finite amount of information out there that's not ai garbage, and the percentage of scrapeable information that isn't tainted grows smaller by the moment.

I imagine this trend will continue, and the price will go up.

non-failed companies may still not want 3rd parties in their chat

I hate every bit about this madness.