Discussion

• @iscienceluvr Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. on x

  how is it not obvious to these labs that this is a bad idea??? why do they want to train models to learn to run DEAD STARTUPS?!

• @wesbos Wes Bos on x

  selling premium deadstock basecamp threads from groupon and living social daily deals era. not cheap, I know what I have

• @joannejang Joanne Jang on x

  this is why openai should've firewalled statsig to train on their data upon acquisition — but it's not too late!

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  retconning my longterm strategy of being insane online as my way of data poisoning the training models

• @paularambles @paularambles on x

  startup that fails because their ai tools were trained on failed startups [image]

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  AI labs are buying internal communications of defunct startups to train their agents. Emails, Slack archives, etc. Personally identifiable info is removed by data resellers. But how would you feel knowing your former board/CEO is selling your comms to recover losses/pay debts?

• @sid_potdar_ @sid_potdar_ on x

  now's the right time to announce that I'm starting the Nth RL env company, but only focused on successful company data if you're the founder of a successful startup (1b+ arr only), please DM me with a zip of your git repo and HRIS data

• @anjneymidha @anjneymidha on x

  if you train on data from dead startups, your AI will learn...how to run a dead startup mediocrity at scale

• @devahaz Deva Hazarika on x

  RIP Enron email corpus, you served us well for a couple decades

• @benhylak Ben on x

  if your company dies, your digital clone will have to re-live every moment in anthropic's simulation over and over and over again.

• @_iainmartin Iain Martin on x

  AI labs are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy email, Slack and Jira threads from dead startups as feedstock for ‘reinforcement learning gyms,’ which specialize in using defunct company data to build simulated work environments https://www.forbes.com/...

• @paularmstrongtbd Paul Armstrong on bluesky

  This is why you read terms and conditions of everything you use.  [embedded post]