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Neon will pay you to share your phone calls.
The app sells recordings of your calls to AI companies for training.
You can earn as much as $30 a day.
A new app is promising to give you hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year. And all you have to do is share your phone conversations for the purpose of training AI. Yep, there's always a catch.
Free to iPhone owners via Apple's App Store and Android users at the Google Play Store, a new program called Neon - Money Talks will pay you for certain phone conversations that you share with the company behind the app. Recordings of your phone calls are then passed along to AI developers who use natural language to train their chatbots.
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Before you nix the idea of sharing your private phone calls for a few bucks, know that Neon is near the top of the charts among the most popular free apps in the App Store. That must mean a lot of people are willing to put their privacy up for sale, at least at the right price.
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