Racing for Data: Tech Giants and the Hunt for Information

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The discussion raises a blanket disclosure about a legal battle involving The New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft. It delves into OpenAI, Google, and Meta racing to gather data from various sources, including the extensive efforts detailed in a Wall Street Journal article and a recent exposé by The New York Times. The story highlights the secrecy of these tech giants regarding the contents of their large language models despite repeated inquiries from journalists.

This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.

Today’s Guests:

Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

Additional Reading:

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

For Data-Guzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too Small

Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections

TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz

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