AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails
2026-11-06 · WIRED
Data brokers are hoovering up your internal work files and emails to sell to AI companies for model training, because apparently your private corporate communications are just another dataset to monetize. Not everyone whose sensitive documents are being scraped for AI training signed up for this deal. The AI industry's insatiable hunger for training data has officially reached 'rifling through your work inbox' levels of invasive.