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This article addresses the critical issue of "Replacement Through Knowledge Acquisition" (RKA), where AI labs potentially render their enterprise customers redundant by training models on proprietary business data. Despite vendor assurances, legal ambiguities regarding what constitutes "training" and the ability to modify terms create significant risks for data sovereignty and competitive advantage in the AI sector.
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There’s only one way to stop AI stealing your business data

Proton Blog6 min read

Big Tech AI labs are collecting unprecedented amounts of your business data. Here's how you can protect it from exploitation

With every prompt, AI labs are ingesting more of your business data every day. Your only protection? A loosely-worded promise not to train on it. A recent Lawfare analysis(new window) argues that when businesses hand their data to a few powerful AI labs, they are teaching those labs how to make them redundant. The authors call this replacement through knowledge acquisition (RKA). While there is no way of knowing what AI labs do with your business data today, three converging forces are in play: largely unchecked power to set the terms, a legal system still grappling with what “training” even means, and both the ability and the incentive to compete with their own customers. Your business may…

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