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“But, it turns out that if you don’t want Slack to use your data, you have to email the company to opt out.”

Ivan Mehta and Ingrid Lundentechcrunch.com ↗

Slack trains its models on customer messages by default, and the opt-out is an email to the company. The terms have sat there since at least September 2023. A Slack engineer admitted the privacy page predates Slack AI and needs updating. Paying customers found out from a Hacker News thread, not from Slack.