Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
Google is soliciting Android developers to sell access to their private codebases to help train the company's AI development tools. While the company frames this as a revenue opportunity for developers, the program is being conducted under strict confidentiality.
Why it matters
This highlights the growing demand for high-quality, proprietary data to train AI models and the ethical concerns regarding how tech giants acquire such data.
Google has quietly been offering to buy access to code written by developers who have released Android apps on the Play Store in order to help the company train its AI coding tools, 404 Media has learned.
The article reports on a specific business practice, providing both the company's stated benefits and the developer's concerns regarding anonymity.
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