| ▲ | tomaskafka 2 hours ago |
| But who is allowed to press it? If anyone, then anyone can expose career ruining messages from someone else, even inadvertently. |
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| ▲ | nine_k 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Every thread participant should check [_] I agree before the thread is published. An inappropriate message may not be about something unsavory but about something private. Information about a contract which is not yet public. A discussion of a candidate who is then hired, and reads it. Etc. |
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| ▲ | coffeebeqn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can’t anyone already do that with a screenshot or a log dump? I’m always assuming company provided comms platforms are fully readable by the admins |
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| ▲ | ivan888 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | That's a good operating assumption, and I usually think this way too. It turns out Slack actually requires legal process or consent of parties to provide private messages to admins: https://slack.com/help/articles/204897248-Guide-to-Slack-imp... But of course yes, another party could simply take a screenshot | | |
| ▲ | fcarraldo 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They certainly can on Business and Enterprise plans. There’s some lip service to following employee policy and applicable laws, but if the policy allows (most do), and you’re in the US, the admins can do it. |
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| ▲ | jackbravo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you wrote it on your company's slack space, it is not really private to the company. Everytime I have a "private" conversation in Slack I have the understanding that the information could be shared. Even now there is a share button not for the whole conversation but yes for individual messages |
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| ▲ | tomjakubowski an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's potentially open to the public as well, given the right legal action. The Enron email dump revealed secrets that presumably ended several marriages. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Who would put a career ruining message on slack or any other company platform/service? |
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| ▲ | garciasn 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Seemingly benign and/or entirely work-related messages can turn out to be career-ending when weaponized by the company. | | |
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| ▲ | swader999 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 1. A workspace admin or 2. by permission of all on thread, or AI inspects contents and gates on 1 or 2 if anything sensitive. This isn't 1990, we can program stuff now. |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The OPs comments weren’t just a hypothetical. We’ve already seen numerous instances where agents have leaked private data. Even GitHub’s own Copilot has been found guilty of these vulnerabilities. | | |
| ▲ | myrandomcomment an hour ago | parent [-] | | I agree. We have a leadership channel at work for well, the leadership team. Those conversations are sensitive. Evaluations, hiring bands, salaries, future product planning, markets, funding, etc. Access to that channel is strictly controlled. I am not worried about anyone taking a screenshot. In the case of allowing an AI agent to participate in the channel, I would be worried about that AI using information from that channel to answer a question outside of that channel. Keeping the agents "learnings" clearly behind a "firewall" would be of great importance. Beyond that, the team are free to have private conversations between themselves. This is NOT something we log. At the end of the day, hiring good people and trusting them is important. The logic of making sure the AI does not leak those conversations also applies. It is a new world, re:AI. It has its uses and things are changing at a rapid pace. It is not clear to be the protections we have implemented in todays paradigms are well implemented yet in the new AI world. |
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| ▲ | Exoristos an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > This isn't 1990, we can program stuff now. What a curious thing to say. My impression has been, if you put the accomplishments of computer science prior to 1990 against those subsequent, the prior would be more impressive, perhaps by a lot. |
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| ▲ | Zambyte an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The only actually interesting thing about this regarding "career ruining messages" is how easy accidental disclosure violations would become. |
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| ▲ | tayo42 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That can already happen with screenshots |
