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AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails

Lately a new kind of pitch has found its way into my inbox.

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AI labs including Anthropic and OpenAI are offering media outlets such as WIRED one‑time payments ranging from $350,000 to $1.8 million to obtain their historical work records—documents, emails, Slack messages, tickets, and similar internal communications—for model training. A similar pitch that also requests call transcripts raises the potential payout to about $2 million. The sender argues that publicly available data is depleted and that AI companies are already spending more than $45 billion on private data to improve their models.

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