X Posts Claim Google Bought Spirit Airlines Data
Users on X post prompts and generated headlines about an alleged acquisition.
Chris Bakke posted a prompt directing Gemini to design an ultra-low-cost airline with rock seats and alcoholic staff. Multiple users then shared machine-generated headlines stating Google purchased Spirit Airlines internal documents, emails, workflows and code for $10 million. Aaron Levie wrote that the sale illustrates data as an asset on the balance sheet. Brian Roemmele described his own history collecting defunct corporate records for training. Other replies questioned whether models trained on a defunct airline would inherit existential dread or compared the data quality to Slack channels.
Wow, seems like Google is buying Spirit Airlines' enterprise data for $10m (outbidding Mercor at $7.5m). Basically includes every internal document, email, workflow, and codebase for a once $6B company. Honestly, $10m for 34 years of operational data really seems like a steal.