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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think that’s the point, they could keep it afloat as competition for what they paid

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[–] Rinzler@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

If you mean the 10 million could have kept Spirit afloat then I'm going to disagree and say that 10 million is a drop in the bucket for their cash flow needs.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 2 months ago

$10m is probably less than their hourly fuel costs.

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