Gig Workers Now Sell Their Phone Calls and Texts to Train AI
Apps like Kled AI, Silencio, and Luel AI pay users cash for everyday data — calls, texts, videos — to feed AI training pipelines.
A growing wave of gig apps is turning ordinary people into AI data suppliers. Platforms like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI are paying users to hand over slices of their daily lives — phone calls, text messages, videos of locations — so AI companies can use it all to train models.
It's the data hustle, 2026 edition. Instead of driving strangers around or delivering burritos, gig workers worldwide are monetizing the mundane. A recorded conversation here, a clip of a street corner there. Quick cash for raw, real-world data that AI systems desperately need.
The model is simple: users generate data passively or through small tasks, and companies package it for AI training. It raises obvious privacy questions about what happens to intimate personal data once it enters the training pipeline. But for now, the market is growing fast and paying out.