Google Is Quietly Buying Code from Play Store Developers to Train AI
5 hours ago
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- #app development
- Google is offering to buy access to Android app developers' codebases from the Play Store to train its AI coding tools.
- The company emails developers, promising payment and IP retention, with the program described as 'confidential'.
- The initiative aims to improve Google's developer tools, enhance AI products, and generate revenue for developers.
- Google is seeking 'non-public content' for AI training, reflecting challenges in competing with rivals like Anthropic and Microsoft.
- This move indicates a potential shortage of quality web-scraped data for AI training, following Google's previous deal with Reddit.