KEY POINTS
- Data startups such as Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake are buying or licensing work documents and company records to supply AI labs, according to WIRED.
- The sale of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' digital assets is on hold after the flight attendants' union said it included their private information.
- Anthropic told WIRED it does not buy workflow data from live companies, and OpenAI had not responded before publication.
A fast-growing group of startups is trying to buy internal work records from companies and individuals and pass them to AI labs for model training, WIRED reported in its Backchannel newsletter. The outlet's writer said the pitches have begun arriving in his own inbox.
