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AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups
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twitter.com/_iainmartin
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harambae
18 days ago
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evil-olive
18 days ago
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actual link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...
never_inline
17 days ago
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Krazam vindicated
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc
simianwords
17 days ago
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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
blablabla123
17 days ago
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This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?
Bombthecat
17 days ago
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Alpha?
ej88
17 days ago
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alpha is your abnormal rate of return
more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors
chmod775
17 days ago
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Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!
kittikitti
18 days ago
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Slop in, slop out.
nitwit005
17 days ago
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This is closer to failure in, failure out.
kushie
17 days ago
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yeah but it's my slop!
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