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> Meta (AI Research)
Meta's AI division creating LLaMA, image generation tools, and AI systems. Uses Facebook and Instagram user data, along with scraped web content.
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
Founded: 2004
Valuation: $1T+
> Google (AI Division)
Google's AI division responsible for Gemini, Bard, and other AI systems. One of the largest data scrapers on the internet, using YouTube, Google Books, and web content without proper consent.
CEO: Sundar Pichai
Founded: 1998
Valuation: $1.5T+
> Midjourney
AI image generation company that creates images from text prompts. Trained on millions of images scraped without permission from artists worldwide.
CEO: David Holz
Founded: 2022
> Anthropic
AI safety company founded by former OpenAI employees. Created Claude AI. Despite "safety" branding, still trains on scraped data and competes with human creators.
CEO: Dario Amodei
Founded: 2021
Valuation: $18B
> OpenAI
The company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and other AI systems. Founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others. Known for massive data scraping without consent, displacing creative workers, and aggressive commercialization of stolen content.
CEO: Sam Altman
Founded: 2015
Valuation: $80B+
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> Perplexity AI
AI search engine. Facing lawsuits from Reddit and Cloudflare for aggressive data scraping, bypassing robots.txt and paywalls.
CEO: Aravind Srinivas
Founded: 2022
Valuation: $3B+
> Character.AI
AI chatbot platform for character conversations. Trained on scraped data, enables harassment and problematic content.
CEO: Noam Shazeer
Founded: 2021
Valuation: $1B+
> Pika Labs
AI video generation startup. Trained on scraped content, competing with human video creators.
Founded: 2023
Valuation: $500M+
> Jasper AI
AI writing tool for marketing. Trained on scraped content, displacing copywriters and content creators.
CEO: Dave Rogenmoser
Founded: 2021
Valuation: $1.5B+
> Copy.ai
AI copywriting platform. Trained on scraped content, automating writing jobs.
CEO: Paul Yacoubian
Founded: 2020
Valuation: $500M+
> Scale AI
AI data labeling and training services. Uses low-wage workers to train AI systems that replace higher-wage workers. Exploitative labor practices.
CEO: Alexandr Wang
Founded: 2016
Valuation: $14B+
> DataRobot
Automated machine learning platform. Enables companies to automate data science jobs without ML expertise.
CEO: Debanjan Saha
Founded: 2012
Valuation: $1B+
> Clarifai
Computer vision and image recognition AI. Uses scraped images, surveillance applications.
CEO: Matt Zeiler
Founded: 2013
Valuation: $100M+
> OnomaAI
AI-driven content creation, responsible for large scale web-scraping of digital illustrations, the birthplace of the Illustrious image model.
CEO: Min Song
> Fal.ai
A generative media platform for running open source image/video/audio/3D models.
CEO: Burkay Gur
> ElevenLabs
AI voice cloning and text-to-speech. Enables deepfakes, voice cloning without consent. Used for harassment and fraud.
CEO: Mati Staniszewski
Founded: 2022
Valuation: $1.1B+
> Inflection AI
Created Pi chatbot. Microsoft-backed, trained on scraped data.
CEO: Mustafa Suleyman
Founded: 2022
Valuation: $4B+
> Cohere
Enterprise LLM company. Trains on scraped data, competes with OpenAI for business customers.
CEO: Aidan Gomez
Founded: 2019
Valuation: $2.2B+
> Mistral AI
French AI company, open-source LLMs. Still trains on scraped data despite "open" branding.
CEO: Arthur Mensch
Founded: 2023
Valuation: $6B+
> ByteDance (TikTok)
TikTok's AI recommendation algorithms. Massive surveillance, data collection, AI-powered content manipulation. Chinese-owned.
CEO: Shou Zi Chew
Founded: 2012
Valuation: $220B+
> xAI
Elon Musk's AI company. Grok chatbot, competing with OpenAI. Trained on scraped data including Twitter/X content.
CEO: Elon Musk
Founded: 2023
Valuation: $24B+
> Adobe
Firefly AI image generation, Sensei AI. Trained on scraped images from artists without consent. Facing lawsuits from creators.
CEO: Shantanu Narayen
Founded: 1982
Valuation: $250B+
> Salesforce
Einstein AI, CRM automation tools. Uses scraped data, automates sales jobs. Multiple rounds of layoffs.
CEO: Marc Benioff
Founded: 1999
Valuation: $250B+
> IBM
Watson AI platform, enterprise AI services. Long history of automation and layoffs. Used AI to replace workers.
CEO: Arvind Krishna
Founded: 1911
Valuation: $150B+
> Apple
Siri, Apple Intelligence, machine learning features across devices. Scrapes user data, contracts with AI companies. Major surveillance via device ecosystem.
CEO: Tim Cook
Founded: 1976
Valuation: $3T+
> Amazon
AWS AI services, Alexa, Amazon Bedrock (LLM platform), uses customer data and scraped content. Massive surveillance via Ring, Alexa devices. Significant AI-related layoffs.
CEO: Andy Jassy
Founded: 1994
Valuation: $1.5T+
> Microsoft
Major investor in OpenAI, creator of GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot (Bing Chat), Azure AI services. Uses scraped code and web data without consent. Major contributor to AI automation displacing workers.
CEO: Satya Nadella
Founded: 1975
Valuation: $3T+
> X (Twitter)
Owned by Elon Musk. Grok AI chatbot, AI recommendation algorithms. Promotes white supremacist content, reinstated nazis. Uses scraped data.
CEO: Elon Musk
Founded: 2006
> Runway
AI video generation (Gen-2, Gen-3). Trained on scraped video content without consent. Competing with human video creators.
CEO: Cristóbal Valenzuela
Founded: 2018
Valuation: $1.5B+
> Notion
Productivity platform with AI features. Uses OpenAI, scrapes user data. Automating knowledge work.
CEO: Ivan Zhao
Founded: 2016
Valuation: $10B+
> Hugging Face
AI model hosting platform. Distributes models trained on scraped data, enables easy deployment of problematic AI systems.
CEO: Clément Delangue
Founded: 2016
Valuation: $4.5B+
> Unity (AI division)
Unity game engine with AI tools. Automating game development jobs, trained on scraped game assets.
CEO: Jim Whitehurst
Founded: 2004
> Roblox
Gaming platform with AI content generation. Automating game creation, displacing developers.
CEO: David Baszucki
Founded: 2004
Valuation: $25B+
> NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a semiconductor company that designs GPUs and AI hardware.
CEO: Jensen Huang
Founded: 1993
Valuation: $3+ trillion
> Stability AI
Creator of Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model. Despite being "open", still trained on scraped data without consent.
CEO: Emad Mostaque
Founded: 2020