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Years ago people routinely uploaded all kinds of sensitive corporate and government docs to VirusTotal to scan for malware. Paying customers then got access to those files for research. The opportunities for insider trading were, maybe still are, immense. Data from AI companies won't be as easy to get at, but is comparable in substance I'm sure.

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https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/virustotal_data_expos...

That's absolutely insane. Aren't they owned by Google?

They are now, although to be clear there was (is?) nothing nefarious going on, just people not understanding that public submissions are available to VirusTotal's paying users. These days VT has private scanning, too, but the issue was always one-offs from random finance or investor relations teams.

It's come up here and there in security, too, e.g. in https://www.directdefense.com/harvesting-cb-response-data-le....

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