Spirit: Google Buys Massive Data From Insolvent Airline for AI

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Google buys internal chats from the insolvent airline Spirit for ten million dollars to improve its AI models. To create such data, a million-dollar market is emerging. How secure are team messages from AI companies?

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Google has acquired huge amounts of e-mails and other data, such as details of flight bookings and price calculations of the US airline Spirit Airlines, which went bankrupt a few months ago. The information is now to be used to train AI systems. (Continue reading)

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For months, Silicon Valley has said that internal chats of failed start-ups have been sought after for the training of artificial intelligence. Google is now even picking up data from an entire low-cost airliner.

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Did you ever fly with Spirit Airlines? Or did you work there? Or did you send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon feed Google’s artificial intelligence model. The low-cost airline stopped all of its operations in May and, since then, has been selling its remaining assets through the bankruptcy process. While most of them are airplanes, equipment and real estate, there are also other valuable assets. (Keep readin…