Enshittification

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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦‍♂️

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[–] Kushan 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We just got forced to ditch slack for teams despite a massive effort from myself and a few others to justify the cost of the platform.

Kind of glad we didn't get sign off now because this would have been egg on my face.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We started using Teams a few years ago. You can feel gigabytes of Javascript running on the background just by going from one channel to another. Terrific job.

[–] Kushan 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind the performance issues if the experience was even just slightly better. I can never find what I need on teams, messages just get lost in the ether.

[–] Warl0k3 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and why the hell do I have to clear two separate notifications if someone reacts to a message? who the fuck thought that was desirable functionality?

[–] Kushan 1 points 1 month ago

You can at least turn that off, thank fuck