Anonymousabout 5 hours ago
AI companies are increasingly acquiring the data assets of failed startups through bankruptcy proceedings, asset sales, and IP transfers, feeding user data originally collected under different privacy promises into agent training pipelines. This growing practice — operating in a regulatory gray zone between U.S. bankruptcy law, FTC enforcement, and evolving EU data rules — raises questions about consent, market fairness, and whether the resulting AI agents are meaningfully better than those trained on synthetic alternatives.