AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When startups shut down, their emails, chats, code and documents are now bought and sold as training material for AI models. Archives offer real conversations that simulated training worlds lack; one founder got about $25,000 for his code, and a bankrupt airline's records sold for $10 million. Lawyers warn the material can hold private details and that workers never agreed to the sales.

Summary written with AI by HowTechMoves, based on reporting by MIT Technology Review.