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AI Companies Desperate For Data Are Buying Up Dead Airlines’ Emails And Scanning Old Books
- Spirit Airlines agreed to sell its stored worker and customer data to Google for $10 million on Monday, continuing asset liquidation since the carrier shuttered in May.
- According to Gizmodo, the acquisition includes 100 million company emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams conversations, and approximately 30 million lines of code, plus insights into software production and aircraft operations.
- A Google spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the company acquired the dataset to improve its products and AI models. The information has been scrubbed of identifying data before transfer.
- Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, opposes the purchase. She stated, "We are filing a court objection to Google," arguing the data has no business being sold.
- Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google increasingly source training data by purchasing information directly from businesses as demand for massive AI datasets grows. This strategy secures additional content for model development.
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Spirit Airlines went bankrupt. AI companies bid on its data, and now Google is paying $10 million for it.
·Helsinki, Finland
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Google paid $10 million for 100 million emails and 500 million chats from Spirit Airlines to train its artificial intelligence. The flight auxiliaries union has already filed an objection in bankruptcy court.
Google buys internal chats from the insolvent airline Spirit for ten million dollars to improve its AI models. To create such data, a million-dollar market is emerging. How secure are team messages from AI companies?
·Frankfurt, Germany
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