#AI training data
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Who owns the words that trained AI? Courts are still figuring it out
A $1.5 billion ruling against Anthropic and a string of unresolved lawsuits show just how far copyright law is from catching up with the technology reshaping publishing.
Hollywood writers and directors are training AI to replace them, and getting paid to do it
Award-winning screenwriters and producers are taking gig work teaching AI systems their craft, earning between $12 and $200 an hour, in what one creative called digging the grave of their own profession.
AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hit $500 Million Gross Run Rate in Eight Months
Demand for human-verified AI training data is minting fast-growing startups. Micro1's revenue explosion shows the market is big enough for several players, and the ethical debates are heating up.
Google bought Spirit Airlines' employee records. Workers are alarmed.
A bankruptcy auction last Friday handed Google a vast trove of Spirit Airlines' workplace data. No passenger details are included, but thousands of current and former employees want to know: how safe is their information?
AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.
A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.
This Font Makes Webpages Unreadable to AI Scrapers, but Normal for Humans
Two designers have built a typeface that secretly swaps words in the code AI companies collect, while leaving the page looking perfectly normal to ordinary readers.
A new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.
AI Companies May Be Destroying Rare Books to Train Their Models
Booksellers are raising the alarm that AI firms are buying up physical books, including rare and out-of-print copies, then shredding them to scan the pages cheaply and fast.
Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.
Rare books shredded to feed AI: Australian sellers sound the alarm
Secondhand and rare book dealers in Australia say old books are being bulk-bought, scanned for AI training data, then destroyed. For the people who trade in physical books, that process feels like cultural vandalism.
Five Platforms Building the Backbone of Physical AI in 2026
From simulation to data factories, these are the infrastructure layers that turn a trained model into a robot that can actually do a job.
Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued SerpApi for scraping and reselling its search results. A judge handed Google a setback last week, and Google says it's pressing on anyway, with Reddit quietly along for the ride.
A federal judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers
The payout works out to $3,000 per book across roughly 500,000 works. But the ruling that made AI training on copyrighted text legal still stands, and many authors are not celebrating.
Patreon starts blocking AI scrapers instead of just asking them nicely
The creator platform has partnered with Cloudflare to actively stop bots from harvesting creators' work to train AI models, moving past the old honour-system approach.
Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training, calling it one of history's biggest copyright violations
Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier claim Google used millions of copyrighted books without permission to build its Gemini AI. A federal lawsuit filed in New York could reshape how AI companies gather training data.