Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a "confidential content offer pilot", offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

<a href="https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260602/i66.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260602/p66#a260602p66" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jason Koebler / <a href="https://www.404media.co/">404 Media</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/">Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a &ldquo;confidential content offer pilot&rdquo;, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a &ldquo;confidential&rdquo; program.</p>