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Ekarostoday at 11:09 AM3 repliesview on HN

Anyone else somewhat weirded by current state of affairs that this sort of information is valuable enough to even bother selling... And that it actually happens... It feels like some societies are in really weird place.


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budman1today at 12:16 PM

How does this have value? Is any and every sentence in an e-mail considered 'fact' and thus to be fed into the AI?

90% of e-mails and Teams communications are inane. Polite banter, "thanks for taking care of that, I appreciate it" "please route the forms to Janet this week because Bill is on vacation" "unit will be un available until the parts come in" . I can't see the intrinsic fact value of this kind of communication without screening it. And after screening, the gold nuggets would be minimal.

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greggoBtoday at 11:12 AM

I am very much weirder out by it, yeah. Seems some societies are just excessively desperate for some kind, any kind, of fuel for economic growth, to the point this is where attention is now. The term "post capitalism" being thrown around feels less ridiculous than it did in years gone past.

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tiahuratoday at 12:42 PM

Companies buying other companies files have been a thing since companies.