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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-buys-spirit-airlines-data-for-ai-training-for-just-usd10-million-purchase-includes-hundreds-of-millions-of-emails-microsoft-teams-chats-billions-of-flight-pricing-records-and-anonymized-passenger-records
These are becoming absurd. Like what the fuck is the benefit of this training data? Now the Gemini can statistically generate new ways to euphemistically refer to poor people?
Or Amazon scraping the “data” out of Twitch streams. I barely see the appeal of watching someone elese play a game. I mean, at least they’re a real person I can conceivably pester with chat messages. Why would I watch a fake person play a game that doesn’t exist?
I have to imagine the goal of the Twitch stuff would be to make something like AI VTuber or something. Less about the game itself, but more about the creator to be replicated.
Just one more data source, bro! Trust me, if we just train our models on more bankrupt airlines it brings us so much closer to actual artificial intelligence!
People give money to streamers. There’s plenty of data to mine there regarding what the streamer was doing or saying vs how many donations they were getting. You can correlate that across different kinds of streams or streamers and get a good idea of how to maximize extraction from a given population.