Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
CGMthrowaway
22 points
7 comments
April 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
prepend
How are these worth $100k? I assume non-failed companies are selling as well. And I guess there’s lots of irc scraping going on.
gherkinnn
I hate every bit about this madness.
hank808
Oh good! Training your AI on the human interactions between people at a failed company will lead to success, right? Great!
8954789543547
Does that include Gawker?
gnabgib
Previously (40 points, 6 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801494 (42 points, 5 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811748