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AI labs are aggressively acquiring private corporate data, including internal emails and documents, to train models as public datasets become saturated. This emerging market involves specialized brokers licensing professional workflows from journalists and students to improve model reasoning on real-world knowledge tasks. The shift represents a significant expansion of training data sources beyond standard web crawling into sensitive proprietary information.
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AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails
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