Companies are increasingly using employees' internal communications like Slack messages and emails to train AI models, raising privacy and consent concerns.

Work communications including Slack messages and emails are being repurposed as training data for AI systems

This practice raises significant privacy concerns as employees may not have explicitly consented to their messages being used for AI training

Organizations are leveraging internal corporate data as a new source for AI model development and improvement

The use of personal workplace communications for AI training highlights the need for clearer data governance policies and employee consent frameworks