AI companies are desperate for your work-related data. What's your price?
AI companies are increasingly seeking private corporate data to train their models, leading to a market where companies and individuals are selling work-related documents. This trend raises significant privacy and compliance concerns regarding how employee data is utilized.
Why it matters
The commodification of internal work data highlights a growing tension between AI development needs and individual data privacy rights.
AzmanL/Getty Images This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here . AI is running into a data dilemma, and it needs your help. Technically, it doesn't need your help. It just needs your emails, your internal messages with coworkers, and any documents you created. Consider this the newest stage of the great education of AI. AI companies have run the well dry training their models with internet text and people rating their chatbot responses. Now they want AI to get hands-on job experience, and they're doing it with simulated workplaces. (Alistair Barr, author of the great Tech Memo newsletter , has a fantastic breakdown on how these reinforcement learning environments work .) These training grounds need real data and workflows that models can study. AI companies can leverage their own workforces for that.
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