Selling your data to AI labs is short-termist suicide, argues ZDR advocate
tekbog · x · 2026-10-15
tekbog argues that selling company data to AI labs for cash worth less than a few years' revenue is the most short-termist move possible: the more data you sell, the more likely your entire company gets one-shotted by the next model.
Frontier labs are already extremely opaque about enterprise data handling, and now even random SaaS can't be trusted — which is why ZDR and sovereignty matter. He points to Thinking Machines and Prime Intellect as options for training your own models to keep the benefits of automation in-house.
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