Adding more random words to the word guessing machine will most certainly finally make it smarter
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Everyone loses here. It's no longer possible to trust any organisation with your data, because no matter what they say or do, they have no control over what will happen to it if they ever become insolvent.
Shouldn't something like that be illegal? The data-sharing authorization certainly applied only to the airline.
"something something transferrable something something"
Weird to think there was data Google didn't already have.
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.
I'm not sure how, but buying a company for just the data should be illegal.
They didn't, they bought the data, and only the data, in a bankruptcy auction.
Everything is on sale for the highest bidder in an effort to get as much money to pay the company debt as possible. Buying the actual company would be suicide, as then you also get all that debt.
I think that’s the point, they could keep it afloat as competition for what they paid
If you mean the 10 million could have kept Spirit afloat then I'm going to disagree and say that 10 million is a drop in the bucket for their cash flow needs.
Unfortunately even though that isn't the case here, companies get bought up for parts all the time.
“Anonymized”
Do you know how easy it is to deanonimize it? Clearly the regulators and politicians don’t care.
Especially if you're Google. Matching "anonymous" travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.
To them it's a feature, not a bug.
We should profit from the purchases we make that become data for someone else to profit from.
I hate this timeline.
Disgusting.
Court records reveal that the Google purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records for competitors' flights, 7.5 billion passenger transaction records from 2008, and more than 175,000 employee records from 1986. Aside from this, the company will also get information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity records, audits and fraud, marketing campaigns, human resources records, project management, and pricing curve data, among others.
This could be a cause of concern for anyone who’s ever transacted with the airline, either as a customer, employee, contractor, or even investor, especially as AI is known for its privacy problems.
Add it to the list of reasons to always use email aliases as well as unique passwords and phone numbers!
And never work for any company ever, apparently.
If my place of business goes bankrupt, is Google going to get access to my employment records? The memes I share in work chats? My disciplinary record? My bank account details I used for direct deposit?
If someone puts that they worked at Spirit on a resume, what is the likelihood that job openings will start to query these things to see how far they can lowball someone on wages, or whether they're a "difficult" employee? This is shit that runs the risk of following someone for life.
The endgame is eugenics too. Only the "perfrct" human gets allowed to survive, making it impossible for people with even a small mark on their record to survive.
That... Feels a bit much. We can agree data collection like this is bad without conspiracy theories like that.
These are becoming (more) absurd. Like what the fuck is the benefit of this training data? Now the Gemini can statistically generate new ways to euphemistically refer to poor people?
Or Amazon scraping the "data" out of Twitch streams. I barely see the appeal of watching someone elese play a game. I mean, at least they're a real person I can conceivably pester with chat messages. Why would I watch a fake person play a game that doesn't exist?
Just one more data source, bro! Trust me, if we just train our models on more bankrupt airlines it brings us so much closer to actual artificial intelligence!
I have to imagine the goal of the Twitch stuff would be to make something like AI VTuber or something. Less about the game itself, but more about the creator to be replicated.
Certainly only good things coming from this news.
So when Gemini is used to plan the next 9/11, surely someone will object. Right?
Im sure gemini will offer "thoughts and prayers"
when the AI bubble pops they can still use this data for personalized advertising.