Artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI and Anthropic have scraped nearly all human knowledge from the internet with assistance from the U.S. government, which is helping them sell that data back to the public, according to former Google engineer and whistleblower Zach Vorhies. Vorhies, who leaked more than 950 pages of Google internal documents in 2019, made the allegations in an interview with RT published Friday. He said the government has protected these firms as “data cartels,” allowing them to build monopolies on information. “These cartels have gone through and they’ve downloaded the data for themselves, before everybody else knew about…

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