AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails
AI companies are purchasing internal corporate communications and documents from data brokers to train models, with deals reaching millions of dollars. Firms like Mercor and Micro1 acquire emails, Slack messages, and work files, claiming to anonymize data. Critics warn anonymization may not fully protect privacy, and workers may unknowingly help build AI systems that could automate their jobs.
Key signals
- 01AI labs buy corporate emails, documents, and messages for model training
- 02Data brokers claim anonymization but privacy experts doubt effectiveness
- 03Workers' data may train AI systems that could replace their jobs
AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails, published by WIRED.
Data brokers are collecting all sorts of internal corporate files to help train AI models. Not everyone is thrilled.
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