AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups (opens in new tab)

(twitter.com)

40 pointsharambae2mo ago10 comments

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simianwords2mo ago· 3 in thread

This is extremely good news and they should also buy their codebase. There’s a lot of alpha in buying dead people’s WhatsApp chat history and so on

blablabla1232mo ago

This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?

Bombthecat2mo ago

Alpha?

ej882mo ago

alpha is your abnormal rate of return

more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors

kittikitti2mo ago· 2 in thread

Slop in, slop out.

nitwit0052mo ago

This is closer to failure in, failure out.

kushie2mo ago

yeah but it's my slop!

evil-olive2mo ago

actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...

never_inline2mo ago

Krazam vindicated

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc

chmod7752mo ago

Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!

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