AI Companies Desperate For Data Are Buying Up Dead Airlines’ Emails And Scanning Old Books Google LLC is purchasing Spirit Airlines' data for $10 million to train its AI models, according to Forbes. The tech giant is among AI companies resorting to unconventional data sources, including dead airlines' emails and scanned old books, to feed their algorithms. AI Companies Desperate For Data Are Buying Up Dead Airlines’ Emails And Scanning Old Books By Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes StaffSource: Forbes Innovation https://www.forbes.com/innovation/ Google says its buying Spirit Airlines’ data for $10 million. Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.