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AI companies are desperate for your work-related data. What's your price?
AI companies are buying workplace data to train their models, from internal documents to employees' everyday work. Are you selling?
TL;DR
- AI models are moving beyond internet text for training and require data from simulated workplaces.
- Companies are acquiring corporate data, such as Google's $10 million purchase from Spirit Airlines.
- Elon Musk announced SpaceX employees' data will be used to train Grok, raising concerns among some employees.
- AI training firms like Handshake AI are offering money for "high-quality written documents."
- The practice prompts a debate about the value of personal work-related data and privacy in the AI era.
- Previous instances, like Meta paying for facial data, showed a split in willingness to train AI models.