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@robb It's being forced into everything now, and very few people who uses these products asked for it!

I'm hearing things all the time about companies looking into ways to leverage AI in their products. It’s grim.

@andycarolan And Slack is a paid product, it's not like they need a new way to make money, they already charge per user and it's not cheap.

@robb Sadly, money doesn't slow down the AI invasion.

Abode CC is a not-all-that-cheap paid product and that now has Generative AI features baked in. I wish I could opt out of it!

@andycarolan @robb it is not easy, but we should not raise a white flag.

@Cloud68 It's difficult to migrate to another service/app when everything either has AI in it, or soon will be @robb

@andycarolan @Cloud68 For Slack I don't have a choice, it's what we use at work. The only thing I can do is not post anything personal like photos, which I have done in the past.

@robb @andycarolan @Cloud68 Under those circumstances, I don't understand why employers don't push back - or at least demand a discount if their staff's writing is being user to train something. We don't use Slack, but Google Chat at work, which now comes with useless and inaccurate AI summaries of unread posts, and annoys me endlessly.

@hl Who do they push back against though? Companies won't listen, even if they have a direct line of communication. It's all incredibly annoying. I don't want AI features in the Adobe software that I pay for, but there it is. @robb @Cloud68

@andycarolan @robb @Cloud68 I think they would push back against their supplier company - at least aim to get a discount or similar. If suddenly, different to when you entered the contract, all your user's data is being used to train an AI - I would think that's a change of contact, and since it's a B2B relationship, there would be professionals dealing with the contracts; not the usual click through EULA power imbalance you have when it's just you.