Hard Fork Podcast
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Tuesday 25 August 2026 12:00:00 GMT
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Anton T :
You can buy data from bankruptcy auctions?? 😳
2026-08-25 23:21:38
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_stevenator_ :
They paid 10 million dollars to train their models on how to bankrupt a company
2026-08-25 16:20:10
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❌ Mel | College Mom Empty Nest :
I get it if it’s internal data, employees emails and Slack chats -employee communications are never promised any kind expectation of privacy. But does the bankruptcy court have to abide by the boundaries set for customer data within Spirit’s stated privacy policy when determining what can be sold?
2026-08-27 03:22:36
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Terra :
it's super cool how we have zero data privacy laws
2026-08-26 03:20:46
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Gr1ppys0cks0n :
“Auctioned off data” we are in hell people
2026-08-26 10:32:29
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Michael Caputo :
Using the data to train google flights
2026-08-26 02:41:46
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Dan :
Guardian of the world’s data??? GUARDIAN???
2026-08-25 17:11:16
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JB :
Google does flights. I wonder if they want to see how airline data is internally organized to improve their flight booking tool?
2026-08-25 12:41:14
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Geoffrey :
Shows how behind AI is when Google needs to pull this move.
2026-08-26 00:55:19
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RyanM :
You know the business operations data of famously very sucessful Spirit Airlines might not be the best training set.
2026-08-25 15:35:27
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atripcity :
$10m google is like a nickel to me.
2026-08-26 04:08:05
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Hurricane Helen :
It still doesn’t make sense- between the Google suite of products (hello Gmail), Google search engine, Google ad network - they have SO MUCH DATA. Why do they need spirit’s data?! Why? What new tasks?!
2026-08-26 15:25:38
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Bryn :
I worked at Google for 8+ years until 2024. My direct team had an annual $10M budget that we were expected to turn into $90-180M in revenue. they clearly expect to extract a lot of value from this dataset
2026-08-26 05:50:29
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bferro :
This is ffing criminal
2026-08-26 20:14:41
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King Richard :
Why didn't they sell it instead of going bankrupt lmao
2026-08-26 05:23:16
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gimpsor :
we live in a corporate surveillance state. When the ai bubble pops big tech will be bailed out by the government the surveillance will be the use case to justify government financial support
2026-08-26 00:18:38
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EloisaOnTheRun on IG :
Pricing and seasonality data also demographics there’s a lot of info to mine
2026-08-26 08:34:08
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LG (not) in Florida :
I FUCKING HATE IT HERE
2026-08-26 14:11:03
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Rohe :
They needed to know how many times I could be tricked by cheap ticket entry price…twice, the answer is two times 🥺
2026-08-26 08:20:31
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NaBlLa :
We really are running out of new sentences
2026-08-25 15:11:55
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BestofTikti :
A lot of LLMs were trained on Enron lawsuit data
2026-08-26 15:51:50
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maxwellandersonfat :
What is the task? What not to do with an airline?
2026-08-26 01:25:39
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Logan :
I mean I assumed they wanted it to add to their training data on how to communicate and interact like a human
2026-08-26 20:56:51
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Eagle Nash 107 :
National security risk
2026-08-26 22:49:20
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BostonBA :
It’s millions of data points. $10 mil is nothing and the value in data is massive. Likely not about II. More about buying patterns based on demographics, etc. used for their tools selling airfares and travel.
2026-08-26 01:57:29
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