The author, who leads the development of Zulip, a team chat app that can be self-hosted or used as a cloud service, advocates for self-hosting as the best way to protect proprietary data. They argue that self-hosting is now a viable alternative to cloud services, with many self-hostable products capable of replacing popular cloud services. The author also outlines Zulip's commitment to data privacy, stating that they do not train LLMs on customer data and have no plans to do so, and that Zulip remains 100% open-source.
Key takeaways:
- Slack’s terms of service allow the company to use customer data, including private messages and files, to train AI models, which has raised concerns about data privacy and security.
- Many tech companies are increasingly relying on AI and large language models (LLMs), which require large amounts of data, potentially compromising data privacy.
- Self-hosting collaboration software is suggested as a safer alternative to using cloud services, as it prevents proprietary data from being used by other companies.
- Zulip, a team chat app, prioritizes data privacy and does not use customer data to train LLMs. It offers both self-hosting and professional cloud hosting, and allows easy data transfer between the two.