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Craig Hale

Slack is training its machine learning on your chat behavior — unless you opt out via email

The slack logo on a mobile phone in front of a purple wall with the slack logo on it.

Slack has been using customer data to power its machine learning functions, including search result relevance and ranking, leading to the company being criticized over confusing policy updates that led many to believe that their data was being used to train its AI models.

According to the company's policy, those wishing to opt out must do so through their organization’s Slack admin, who must email the company to put a stop to data use.

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