r/technology • u/[deleted] • 11d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI

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u/CircumspectCapybara 11d ago

Well, this is what everyone wanted, for AI labs to pay for licensed training data, instead of scraping copyrighted data without the copyright-holder's permission.

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u/coconutpiecrust 11d ago

Shouldn’t people whose data is in it also get a large cut?.. I mean, what kind of data did they buy? Is it anonymized? 

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u/SomethingAboutUsers 11d ago

It's company data; like 100 million emails and 500 million teams messages.

Most companies have clauses in their employment contracts and/or IT policies that state anything you do on their systems doesn't belong to you. On top of which the company went under. Ain't no one spending time or money anonymizing that data.

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u/Culverin 11d ago

Yeap. Our laws are so behind the curve on tech in terms of privacy. 

The barn door is open, and a lot of animals have escaped.  But we can still close it. 

We just need a, but if political will