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AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails
Publisher description: Data brokers are collecting all sorts of internal corporate files to help train AI models. Not everyone is thrilled.
Wired | Nov 6, 2026 | Steven Levy
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While I was aware that AI companies are buying expert data from various sources, there hasn’t been that much attention paid to it. He urged me to consider that Big AI has two bottomless needs: compute and data. When a business streams the data to Mercor, the company strips out any personal identifying information, or PII.
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