Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity-cost

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teft@piefed.social · 24 pts · 183d (1 reply)

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 pts · 183d

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 pts · 183d

"you get paid?"

jak0b@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 183d

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