Call you friend, have them turn on GPT voice, you do the same. Corrupt the data set and make money!

okay they're building evil, HOWEVER

one of the only instances I've heard of people's data (fucking hate calling it that) being paid for instead of just straight up stolen

Its probably #2 because such apps were banned until recently. There are infinite ways to make rankings. Something being first, second, etc. doesn't mean anything in particular.

In America, you pay for app. In Soviet Russia, app pays for you!

I’ve never even heard of that app.

When calling others not on the app? No way that is acceptable under law without the other party's consent.

At least they are being honest and even pay you, this is strange to see

Gig economy reaches its final form: people literally selling their vocal cords for lunch money while corporations build billion-dollar AI models from the scraps.

The terms read like dystopian fan fiction - "worldwide, exclusive, irrevocable, transferable" rights to your voice recordings. They basically own your ability to speak forever, but hey, at least you earned enough for a Big Mac! The "anonymization" claims are particularly hilarious when voice biometrics can identify you from a whisper.

What's genius about this scam is that they've convinced reddit bros that $19/hour is good money for permanently surrendering biometric data. That's below minimum wage in most states for creating training data worth millions to AI companies. But frame it as "empowerment" instead of exploitation and watch people line up to commodify themselves.

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 Achieved peak surveillance capitalism while making it feel like liberation. This is dystopian innovation at its finest.

People are free to whore out themselves

This is illegal in a lot of states

Interesting.

I wonder if we can set it up so 2 AIs talk to each other and we collect the money.

Maybe because more people have mobile phone than toilets. You can sell your voice while taking dump on the street.

At least people are getting paid somewhat for their data, instead of just being "compenstated" with access to a service of dubious quality

I mean, they wanted to share the data with other companies, so it kind of works as suggested, but I think they didn't like the part of not getting paid to share it with the whole world. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/viral-call-recording-app-neon-goes-dark-after-exposing-users-phone-numbers-call-recordings-and-transcripts/

Don't LLM have enough language samples already? Not like a (one-sided) phone call helps them less making things up.

So at least they're being honest about it and give kickbacks?