Slack's AI Training: A Breach of Trust?

Slack has turned your private messages into AI training data without your explicit consent, raising serious privacy concerns.

Slack has admitted to using customer data — including private messages and files — to train its AI and machine learning models by default, without requiring users to opt-in.

This revelation has sparked a backlash, with many users and corporate administrators feeling blindsided and scrambling to opt-out. Critics argue that Slack should have implemented an opt-in system, ensuring users are fully aware and agreeable to their data being used in such a manner.

Despite Slack's assurances that the data is de-identified and aggregated, the fact that sensitive information from direct messages is used without explicit consent raises significant ethical and privacy concerns.

This controversy underscores the need for transparent and ethical data practices in AI development. How should companies balance innovation with privacy?

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