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

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

Interesting.

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

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/

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

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