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Palantir CEO Alex Karp flags AI data ownership loophole

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has raised concerns about data ownership with AI model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. He argues that the intermediate reasoning steps generated by these models, which are not explicitly covered by current service agreements, could be proprietary data that customers do not own. Karp suggests that AI labs may be benefiting from this ambiguity, as these 'hidden tokens' are valuable for training and improving models, potentially leading to the theft of customer 'alpha'. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about data rights and potential exploitation by AI providers, impacting how businesses use and contract with AI services.

RANK_REASON Article discusses concerns raised by a CEO about AI model data ownership, rather than announcing a new product or research.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp flags AI data ownership loophole

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Adam Fish ·

    Alex Karp was right: you don’t own your data

    Generative AI companies say you own your "Inputs" and "Outputs." Their legal agreements leave out who owns the reasoning tokens generated between them.