employees' emails as well as data on customers, even from companies that went out of business years ago.

I think this is about the physical inventory, like planes

Also Personally Identifying Information is not part of a legitimate training set for the AI tools themselves. If "AI companies" are buying this data, they are almost certainly receiving it as anonymized (or doing so immediately upon receipt thereof, and deleting the original sets containing PII quickly).

PII is a HUGE liability, and not useful for actual model training anyway. You want the info to look like "Person146236568, male, about 45 yo, high income, good credit score, lives in Phoenix", not "johnsmith@yahoo.com, 123 Pleasant Street, Phoenix, AZ, 480-234-5234". Possession of the former has 0 legal liability, but the latter conveys a LOT of liability, with 0 tangible training benefit.

Now, what some bad actors are leveraging trained AI models to DO in terms of analyzing data sets containing PII for their own nefarious purposes is another question/subject.

Having a customer's true address (rather than just "lives in Phoenix&quot allows the AI system to generate map overlays.

How I could use something like that in my work: I'm a production supervisor at a daily newspaper. We print three different titles.

Let's say that a company selling luxury goods - what they are isn't important at this point - wants to put a free-standing insert in one of my papers. To get the most out of their advertising buy they want to target the areas of the city where people who have a lot of money live, and not send FSIs to working-class neighborhoods.

If you had hard data on consumption by address, the company's ad sales rep could type into her computer, "plot on my carrier route map everyone who's flown on a full-service carrier at least five times in the last 12 months that also subscribes to this newspaper." The computer churns for a bit and pops up 1200 names that live in six routes. There are a total of 3200 subscribers in those six routes, so we order 3500 FSIs and I program the run to first produce 3200 papers with this FSI in them that'll be given to the carriers servicing those six routes.

Result: the advertiser gets the coverage they want - selling to people who have enough money to shop in their store - without having to waste money on a 50,000-paper Total Market Coverage campaign that won't work.

issue, if you ask me, and I thought that was the context since it often is with my dear friend HPD C. The people who'd I'd think want to buy that data are exactly you guys, perhaps using an AI model custom-trained for your business, run locally. That's at the heart of my point, I'm just saying I don't know why OpenAI would want PII like that and they damn sure shouldn't be training ChatGPT with it.

Sorry if unclear

It was just a gift to their racist pal Elon

I'm going to assume that "inventory" means more than just what's stored in Spirit Airlines' computers. It also includes aircraft, gate slots and routes. The aviation industry is far more regulated than the industries Musk likes to be in, and it's highly dependent on things Musk can't control - such as the weather, traveling preferences of the general public and whether the dipshit he bought a presidency for decides to start another unprovoked war against an oil-producing nation.