The generative AI boom has sparked a race to collect data for model training. Relx, the owner of LexisNexis, recently warned customers about sharing its legal data with AI bots. I reached out to Relx and a LexisNexis spokespeople to ask whether LexisNexis has seen its legal data being scraped by bots or otherwise collected by outside companies for use in AI model training. Another AI legal startup called Casetext was recently acquired for $650 million by Thomson Reuters, the owner of Westlaw, an established legal data service that competes with LexisNexis. This offering uses AI models trained on the company's exclusive legal content, according to LexisNexis.

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Persons: That's, Sean Fitzpatrick, Julie Chapman, LexisNexis spokespeople, Relx Organizations: LexisNexis, Elsevier, Ireland, Thomson Reuters Locations: North America, Sequoia