There’s only one way to stop AI stealing your business data

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…