How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for AI
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies and altered their own rules as they sought information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
San Francisco | In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system.
It needed more data to train the next version of its technology – lots more.
