I'm hazarding a guess that there are many AI startups that focus on building datasets with the aim to sell those datasets. Still doesn't make total sense, since doing it badly would only hurt them, but maybe they don't really care about the product / outcome, they're just capturing their bit of the AI goldrush?
I guess the AI companies finally figured out they’re supposed to buy their stolen datasets from a shell company spun up by the most unsavory character within two degrees of the CEO. Every CEO has a drug dealer, and every CEO drug dealer knows the greasy grey hat dude running a data laundry “startup.” The VCs usually know some private equity dons who run the same racket to do bust out fraud, too.
It’s truly unbelievable that OpenAI and Anthropic were so sloppy. Pirating all that copyrighted media and not even bothering to hide behind one layer of indirection. Amateurs.
So yeah… it’s what, five years’ worth of pent up demand for organized crime, hitting the market everywhere all at once? I’m surprised the request volume isn’t higher!
