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Lead with what is not on the open web: that is what the labs say they pay for

OpenAI's data partnership asks for datasets "not already easily accessible online to the public today", Google's Content Offer Pilot names "offline content" as what it pays for, Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace says "much of the authoritative content lives behind paywalls or within specialized archives", Labelbox's Prism says frontier models "have already absorbed much of the public internet", and Protege and Troveo sell access to "private and proprietary" and "non-public, real-world" data. None of them describes paying for what can be read or crawled publicly.

Dated 22 Oct 2026Source checked 22 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 27 Oct 2026Basis: strong