The company in the very article this thread is about wants this.

Lots of companies want this.

Companies should have the option. Right now they're completely locked out of taking advantage of AI with their business data locked away in Slack.

Slack is a graveyard.

I would be a customer of this. It's a pain in the ass that I can't just ask a question to an LLM about knowledge that I know is locked away in past conversations. I have to go bug that person and sync up with them. Latency, annoying context switches for everyone, ... these things have a simple solution. Let AI have the data.

By focusing on AI, you missed the point.

Slack is monopolizing data access and not giving companies access to their own data.

Companies want to hook up their chat BI to LLMs so it can be instantly and richly queried. Slack search sucks, and an LLM could increase employee efficiency by an order of magnitude. It could also make a lot of requests self serve rather than having employees interrupting each other constantly.

Slack is prohibiting companies from surfacing their own data to AI. They're perhaps worried this will erode their leverage.

That's the entire point here.

Companies should have the option to leverage their chat data for AI rather than having no option at all.

Slack bad.

The company writing the article this HN thread is about wants this. Lots of companies do.

Today there is no option because Slack is scared to death of losing their leverage.

Companies want full rights to their data, and Slack is lording over it like a dragon protecting treasure.

I operate with the assumption that the company can access my private DMs on enterprise slack if they want to. With that, users are still allowed to be concerned if the company is going to use that information for AI use cases. I’d prefer that all AI stay away from my private DMs.