Frontier labs pay big for old Slack threads and bankrupt airline logs to feed models
sarahookr · x · 2026-10-15
Sarah O'Keefe notes that frontier AI labs are paying huge sums for old Slack threads, bankrupt airline logs, and deprecated company archives. The reason: the smartest model is no longer built in isolation—what matters is how models interact with the real world and incorporate real-world signal.
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