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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago

they bought reddits data for 60mil. and apparently googles needs more from reddit, hence why they lockdown on accounts limited per phone, and likely is behind reddits forcing login, they ran out of data to extract, im guessing the amount of bots/AI posting is is limiting actual users on the sites.