alt.hn

4/22/2026 at 9:03:42 PM

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

https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-email-archives-to-train-ai-2000747916

by CGMthrowaway

4/23/2026 at 1:01:18 AM

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

by hank808

4/22/2026 at 9:24:20 PM

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.

by prepend

4/22/2026 at 10:31:00 PM

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.

by nyc_data_geek1

4/23/2026 at 12:04:14 AM

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

by NullPrefix

4/23/2026 at 1:09:18 AM

Does that include Gawker?

by 8954789543547

4/22/2026 at 9:52:45 PM

I hate every bit about this madness.

by gherkinnn