Google bids $10M for Spirit Airlines data to train AI, drawing privacy backlash
Google's purchase of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' business data for AI training has alarmed former employees over the sale of personal information.
What to know
- Google is bidding $10 million to purchase business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for AI model training.
- Former Spirit flight attendants say they had no knowledge their personal data would be sold, raising privacy concerns.
- The deal reflects AI companies' broader push to automate white-collar professional work across industries.
The deal demonstrates an unsettling trend of AI companies acquiring personal data without employee consent to automate jobs.
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“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI.”
Former Spirit Airlines flight attendant · Wired
“Google is willing to pay $10 million for a failed budget airline, because if you believe this is really generalizable, you see a path to all these different industries, not just the ones that Spirit was involved in, being something you can replace pretty quickly.”
SonOfSandor, Mastodon commenter · Mastodon
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“AI has really supercharged the ability for information that was collected at one time to now be able to be used for a lot of other purposes,” EFF’s Nicole Ozer told CNN Newsource (via CBS Texas). https://www. cbsnews.com/texas/video/google -pays-10-million-for-spirit-airlines-data-to-help-train-ai-systems/
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RE: https:// flipboard.com/@time/top-storie s-088ho5dkz/-/a-YttoHyffQ-ezRfzOzCBzWQ%3Aa%3A3195429-%2F0 It looks like the AI industry is setting its sights on white-collar work. Google is willing to pay $10 million for a failed budget airline, because if you believe this is really generalizable, you see a path to all these different industries, not…
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Google's $10 million bid to buy old business data from Spirit Airlines so it can use it to train AI has hit turbulence https://www. techradar.com/pro/googles-usd1 0-million-bid-to-buy-old-business-data-from-spirit-airlines-so-it-can-use-it-to-train-ai-has-hit-turbulence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Gemini, Siri, Co-Pilot…