A few weeks ago, while perusing the New York Times I came across the article, “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.” The article was written by a team of five reporters located in San Francisco, Washington, and New York. The main gist of the article is large AI companies including OpenAI, Google, and Meta are running out of training content for their AI engines. Before we talk about what they did next, let’s think about the implications of this.