According to @timnitGebru, an unnamed individual has been exploiting people facing economic crises to obtain low-quality AI training data, and researchers ignored the exploitation believing they were insulated until it eventually affected them, highlighting concerns about data provenance and ethics in AI data pipelines (source: @timnitGebru on X, Oct 23, 2025). The post explicitly characterizes the collected dataset quality as bad and frames the practice as taking advantage of limited economic options, signaling scrutiny over AI data collection methods (source: @timnitGebru on X, Oct 23, 2025). The post also references a related discussion by @TheAhmadOsman, without providing additional market or crypto-asset specifics (source: @timnitGebru on X, Oct 23, 2025).