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Silicon Valley cities hit with records requests for residents’ emails to train controversial AI - Local News Matters

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BAY AREA RESIDENTS who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future use.Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city clerks from 2020 to 2023. The goal is to create an artificial intelligence tool that can …
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Local News Matters broke the news in on Friday, May 23, 2025.
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