Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] teft@piefed.social 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And in Chicago, Ramelio Hill, an 18-year-old welding apprentice, made a couple hundred dollars by selling his private phone chats with friends and family to Neon Mobile, a conversational AI training platform that pays $0.50 per minute.

If my friend did this and I found out then we would no longer be friends.

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

This has to be illegal to do without the other parties consent. It's literally recording a conversation without any notification.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

"you get paid?"

[-] jak0b@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

"Billions of people are getting robbed of their personal data, but what for?"

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