Around the world, more people are selling their personal data, including videos, voice recordings, and private messages, to AI training platforms for small payments. This creates a new form of gig work driven by tech companies‘ demand for human-like training data.

Contributors from different regions upload everyday content, earn money, and often give irrevocable, royalty-free rights to their biometric identities. Critics warn that this exposes them to identity misuse, deepfakes, and exploitation, while the platforms retain most of the long-term value. The trend highlights economic inequality and privacy risks in AI data markets.