SalesForce Slack’s AI isn’t just reading your messages - it’s turning your private moments into product features, your emotions into enterprise value, it won't be opt-in, it's on by default, if you ask your SaleForce rep how to turn it off, he might just say "AI is all around us"... and you're stuck wondering what data is owned by SalesForce or not, here is how to turn off the AI features in SalesForce Slack, or at least "try" ... !
Stewart Butterfield founded Slack on principles of openness and user empowerment. In a 2014 Wired interview, he said, “The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.” That vision remains critical today. Slack message data belongs to the users who create it - not to hidden AI systems.
Marc Benioff has echoed this ethos: “Our customers’ data belongs to them, it’s their data.” He has also publicly warned, “These LLMs are hungry for our data” - recognizing the risks of AI systems accessing information without consent.
Yet today, Slack’s direction risks betraying both leaders’ intent. AI features are increasingly enabled by default, with minimal transparency or controls over what internal data - including private messages - is analyzed, summarized, or used for training.
We believe this must change.
Wed. Jul 2 10:58am ET... started this page to transfer notes to -pt... PDF of the art for now and QR code. It has six fingers and cracks me up ... get it?
And we're not the only one extremely concerned, it's valuable data that SalesForce will "own" ... and "on" by default starting July 17th, 2025.
In Slack Declares War - Inside the brutal battle unfolding on your desktop. Evan Armstrong’s latest pulls back the curtain on one of the biggest data power grabs in modern workplace software since Lotus Notes.
In Slack Declares War, read how Salesforce, through Slack, has moved to block AI agents and third-party tools from accessing Slack message data - even when users explicitly grant permission. It's a strategic lockdown of ambient, emotional, and operational data across workplaces. And the motive is clear: total control.
"Slack… recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages even if their customers permit them to do so."
This isn’t just a technical tweak - it’s the declaration of intent, and that's what I usually look for in the open-source world, and here, it's super-clear. If Slack becomes the sole arbiter of access to your team’s thoughts, frustrations, and breakthroughs, then it becomes the most valuable (and dangerous) log. We all seem like we are a turning point for AI, privacy, and the very structure of B2B software ... we did not even get to what digital rights you may lose overall. The issue we have with SalesForce Slack message data is that's our Slack message data ... but I think there a good solution, just not one that is going to come from SalesForce and not by July 17, when everyone is opt-ed in by default - 🔗 Read the full piece here.
We'll do women and children sizes first as usual, since those are never in stock first, and then all the rest a day or so later, or have the files/links/permission to make your own shirts with vendors that are the least worst - pt
If SalesForce Slack has your chat logs, they'll need to give them up...
Last week, OpenAI raised objections in court, hoping to overturn a court order requiring the AI company to retain all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely," including deleted and temporary chats.
But Sidney Stein, the US district judge reviewing OpenAI's request, immediately denied OpenAI's objections. He was seemingly unmoved by the company's claims that the order forced OpenAI to abandon "long-standing privacy norms" and weaken privacy protections that users expect based on ChatGPT's terms of service. Rather, Stein suggested that OpenAI's user agreement specified that their data could be retained as part of a legal process, which Stein said is exactly what is happening now.
And of course "well, you don't need to use ChatGPT, or SalesForce, or Slack!" ... NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court.
Putting these up for now (these Admin Panel for SalesForce Slack is a start of being able to manage things, its already bonkers, probably will not work out...) someone will do something better, it's a start - pt
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