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GSA says 337K Taylor Swift referrals have come to vote.gov in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Referral source is a built in feature in browsers that analytics tools can utilize. It does not require any special links.

It just means that a website (almost) always knows the previous page you came from.

Father of Georgia school shooting suspect told investigators he purchased gun as holiday present for son, sources say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well the "sources say" implicates that they actually don't know. They've just heard someone say it. So it's definitely necessary.

Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This was definitely a fuckup from Slack but as I've understood it, the "AI training" means that they're able to suggest emoji reactions to messages.

Not sure how to think about this, but here's some additional info from slack: https://slack.engineering/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secure-and-private/

Edit: Just to pick main point from the article:

Slack AI principles to guide us.

  • Customer data never leaves Slack.
  • We do not train large language models (LLMs) on customer data.
  • Slack AI only operates on the data that the user can already see.
  • Slack AI upholds all of Slack’s enterprise-grade security and compliance requirements.