Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training

Earlier this year, the Chinese company, which made EUFY security cameras, offered money in exchange for its users’ packages and car theft videos.

Popular Says that it will give its customers AI systems to train $ 2 per video for training To help detect thieves who steal cars and packages.

The company wrote on its website, “To ensure we have enough data, we are looking for videos of both real and stage events, to help training what to look for,” the company wrote on its website.

“You can even make events by pretending to be a thief and donate those events,” the website read. “You can complete it quickly Maybe a job can be captured simultaneously by your two outdoor camera, it makes it efficient and easy to get you if you steal the car door you can earn $ 80″ ”

Yuffi also writes that “the data collected from these stage events is used only for our algorithm training, not for any other purpose.”

This initiative shows that companies are willing to pay for users to get data because companies can be effective in training their AI models. Although it gives some users the ability to gain the price from their own data, there is the risk of protection and privacy.

Point Case: Last week, TechCrunch discovered that Neon, A viral calling app It offers users to recording their calls and share transcripts willing to share transcripts, There was a security error that lets users access any other user dataThe After being careful about the protection violation, Neon went offline.

AI has ‘donated’ several thousand videos for training

2 $ per video for theft videos for the promotion of Yuffi is from December 18, 2024 to February 25, 2025. More than 120 users responded to the announcement page that they participated in it, according to the comments posted by users.

The company’s goal was to have a 20,000 video of the package theft and “pull the car door”. EUFY users may take part by filling up A Google Form Where they could upload videos and their PayPal accounts to pay.

Yuffi did not respond to TechCrunch comments and our request request, as how many users participated in the promotion, how many videos the company collected the video and whether the company deleted the videos collected after its AI systems trained.

Since then, there is a similar campaign to encourage Uuchi customers to encourage them to send videos for AI training.

As a time of publication, another application that calls the Yui Video Grants program to improve its AI systems, starting with a “Apprentice Medal”, which is seen only as a badge next to the user’s name, as a camera or gift card.

Yui is simply asking for videos associated with people for this promotion.

The EUFY app shows a “Honor Wall” that has donated most video events to users. According to the app, the leader of the rankings donated the 201,531 video.

On the page of the app for the grant program, the EUFY makes it clear that “donated videos are only used for al -training and improvement. The Yui will not provide video to third parties.”

So uffi Ask users to give grants Videos recorded with the company’s baby monitor. Details Support Page of the Videos Sharing Steps The Page does not mention any money rewards for these videos.

When asked about this special initiative, Yui did not respond.

There is a reason to be suspicious about Yui’s promise to protect users’ privacy. In 2023, Virz The company that tried to cover the camera streams of users, which the company advertised as an encrypt from the end to the end, was involuntary when accessing through the web portal.

After being behind with the Tech News site, the anchor has confused users and promised to solve the matter.

This article was originally published on October 1.