Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information)
AI data brokers are reportedly creating a market for defunct startups’ internal Slack threads and support tickets as training data.
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<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startups-find-old-slack-threads-tickets-suddenly-high-demand"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260815/i13.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260815/p13#a260815p13" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Alix Coutures / <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startups-find-old-slack-threads-tickets-suddenly-high-demand">Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired</a></b></span> — Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO Maximus Greenwald found an unusual email in his inbox.</p>
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