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Author: The Guardian
Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow
Deep Tide Guide: This investigative report reveals a rapidly growing gray market: thousands of people worldwide are earning AI training fees by selling their voices, faces, phone records, and daily videos.
This is not a general discussion of privacy controversies, but an investigation with real people, real amounts, and real consequences—an actor who sold his face later saw "himself" on Instagram promoting an unidentified medical product, with commenters critiquing his "appearance."
When AI companies' data hunger combines with global economic disparities, it's creating an inequitable transaction.
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One morning last year, Jacobus Louw, who lives in Cape Town, South Africa, went out for his usual walk, feeding seagulls along the way. But this time he recorded several videos—

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