Google reportedly buying bankrupt firms to access email data for AI training
clemnt · x · 2026-10-03
Citing a report from The Economist, the post claims Google and likely other AI companies are acquiring bankrupt companies primarily to access their email and internal messaging data for model training.
The implication: "You're not sending an email. You're training a model" — a stark illustration of how far the data-hungry AI industry is willing to go.
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