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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 days ago by kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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people are doing this willingly??!!!

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm sure this is no way a legal kerfuffle just waiting to happen.

Some states have single party consent laws, what happens when they call someone who's in a two party consent law state? Are they going to add in a "this call is being monitored to help train our slop generator" message?

Fuck it, popcorn

Edit: I just realized a great way to sour the data: Only use the app when calling call centers. Enjoy listening to the "updated menu options" that haven't changed in years, the shitty hold music, and the insufferable "your call is important to us, but not important enough to upgrade our staff" bullshit. I don't miss voice calls...

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My first thought was setting this up on a separate or spare phone and then just having it call to call centers with no long old times

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was going with calling the speaking clock and talking in tongues.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Better still, use special audio encoding to poison the model.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank yew fer callin one nine hunred jeeez uss!

[–] maus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe read the article where it already states it only records your side of the conversation?