Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
2026-04-18 · r/technology
When your startup dies, your private Slack gossip and email rants get a second life — as AI training data. Failed companies are cashing in on their employees' old communications by selling them to AI firms. Nothing says 'digital afterlife' like your 2am Slack messages teaching a chatbot how to be passive-aggressive.