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AI data brokers are buying old company emails, chats and files to train models, and a sale of Spirit Airlines records is on hold over staff privacy
The emails and chats you sent at work may one day be sold to train an AI, and the firms buying them say the names are stripped out.
Over 100,000 advertisers now buy ads in ChatGPT, Google has widened ads in AI Mode, and Anthropic still says Claude stays ad-free
WIRED· 5 NovWIRED reports that over 100,000 customers have advertised in ChatGPT since ads began there in February, and that Google last week expanded ads in its AI Mode to 10 more countries and said users find them highly relevant. Anthropic is holding to its pledge to keep Claude ad-free, and its IPO filing did not mention selling ads. An ad tech firm told WIRED that ads partly written by AI get double the clicks.
- When a chatbot recommends a product, look for a label saying it is sponsored before you act on it, and compare with a second source.
- If you advertise, test a small budget in chat ads separately from your usual search ads so you can see the sales it brings.
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