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by donfotto 759 days ago
> Emoji suggestion: Slack might suggest emoji reactions to messages using the content and sentiment of the message, the historic usage of the emoji and the frequency of use of the emoji in the team in various contexts. For instance, if [PARTY EMOJI] is a common reaction to celebratory messages in a particular channel, we will suggest that users react to new, similarly positive messages with [PARTY EMOJI].

Finally someone has figured out a sensible application for "AI". This is the future. Soon "AI" will have a similar connotation as "NFT".

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"leadership" at my company tallies emoji reactions to their shitty slack messages and not reacting with emojies over a period of time is considered a slight against them.

I had to up my slack emoji game after joining my current employer

That sounds literally the same as "flare" from office space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno
Yikes! Thats some pretty heavy insecurity signals from leadership. Please like us! Sad.
And it continues:

> To do this while protecting Customer Data, we might use an external model (not trained on Slack messages) to classify the sentiment of the message. Our model would then suggest an emoji only considering the frequency with which a particular emoji has been associated with messages of that sentiment in that workspace.

This is so stupid and needlessly complicated. And all it does is remove personality from messages, suggesting everyone conforms to the same reactions.

Finally. I am all for this AI if it is going to learn and suggest my passive aggressive "here" emoji that I use when someone @here s on a public channel with hundreds of people for no good reason.