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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.

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