AI Firms Are Buying Work Files and Emails to Train Models
Data brokers are collecting internal company files, such as work documents and emails, to help train AI models. Not everyone is happy with this trend, and the story looks at what it means for people whose work is being collected.
Quick glossarydata brokers, AI models
- data brokers
- Companies that collect personal or business information and sell it to other firms for their own uses.
- AI models
- The programs that power AI tools, learned from large amounts of data so they can recognise patterns and generate answers.
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