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This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.

Today’s Guests:

• Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

Additional Reading:

• How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

• For Data-Guzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too Small

• Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections

• TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz

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Credits

“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones, Davis Land and Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly and Jeffrey Miranda.