The creator of this has a good note on how the Nvidia situation relates, under his diagram of their circular deal:
"To be clear: every deal here is legal, publicly announced, and defended by the people in it — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the structure "nothing inappropriate in principle." Critics compare the pattern to 1990s dot-com vendor financing and warn it can inflate the appearance of demand. As Bloomberg puts it, a circular deal is legally different from a fraudulent "round-trip" — regulators' term for sham trades with no economic substance designed to inflate results. LARP is a joke about the round-trip. This is the legal cousin it rhymes with."
Yeah, it may indeed require some new Slack processes and discipline. But, the alternative would be account linking (like GH). Your interactions would have responses from Claude that are only visible to you if others didn't have the required permissions. It would use your credentials, etc.
That would defeat the stated purpose of collaboration/shared context, it would essentially just be another surface for your private Claude sessions.
Just gotta either decide not to use it or use it and not be willy nilly about the Slack channels in which it's provisioned.
An admin scopes permissions on a per-channel basis. It doesn't allow external actions until an owner specifically provisions that tool for that channel. I think.
But people can be invited to a channel after @Claude is provisioned. So yeah, I suppose you'll need to be deliberate about channel memberships.
If I were to guess, I'd say the habit starts early when someone's unsure of what's important and what isn't. And then becomes exactly that, a habit.