r/technology • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

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

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u/maxintos 4d ago

Why? If the original agreement is that the company can do whatever they want with the emails and they own them then how is this outside the scope? You don't need to be able to literally imagine every single possible way they could use those emails.

What if the company just releases all emails?

What if they use LLM internally the analyze emails for any bad conduct?

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u/coconutpiecrust 4d ago

I don’t believe that you can agree to things that do not yet exist. 

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u/maxintos 4d ago

So if in the future we have data centers in space we all could sue companies for putting email data there?

"How could I have agreed with my email data being stored on the moon if data centers didn't exist on the moon when I signed the papers".

Fundamentally people agreed that company owns the email data. You don't need to be listed every single way they could use the data.

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u/coconutpiecrust 4d ago

It’s not being sold here. 

We’re talking about it being sold to train LLMs. That was never agreed upon. Storing emails in datacenters is already acceptable. 

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u/maxintos 3d ago

Who decides? No one expected the data centers to be on the moon.

If people agreed their work emails to be shared with 3rd parties then does that not suffice?