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AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups (twitter.com)
40 points by harambae 105 days ago
5 comments
evil-olive 105 days ago
actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...
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never_inline 104 days ago
Krazam vindicated

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc

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simianwords 105 days ago
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
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blablabla123 105 days ago
This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?
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Bombthecat 104 days ago
Alpha?
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ej88 104 days ago
alpha is your abnormal rate of return

more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors

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chmod775 104 days ago
Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!
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kittikitti 105 days ago
Slop in, slop out.
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nitwit005 104 days ago
This is closer to failure in, failure out.
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kushie 105 days ago
yeah but it's my slop!
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