Another bankruptcy estate sells internal data for AI training
Why I called it
Google paid $10 million for Spirit Airlines' emails and messages and had to outbid Mercor to get them, which established both a clearing price and a second bidder. Estates owe creditors value maximization, every failed company holds decades of authentic workplace text, and authentic text is the scarcest training input. Once one trustee banks $10 million for an archive previously valued at zero, the next trustee's lawyers will propose it.
The call, in full. By June 30th 2027, a second US bankruptcy proceeding approves the sale of a debtor company's internal data to a buyer intending to use it for AI training.
Scoring criterion. RESOLVES CORRECT if, by June 30th 2027, a US bankruptcy court approves the sale of a debtor's internal corporate data (employee emails, chat logs, code or operational records) in a case other than Spirit Airlines, and a named outlet reports the buyer intends AI training use. RESOLVES WRONG otherwise.
The criterion is the machine-checkable version: a prediction that cannot be settled by a third party against a public source fails the build before it reaches this page.
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