After coming out of nowhere, a viral new app that pays people to record their phone calls for the purpose of training AI has been yanked offline after a security flaw allegedly exposed user data.

Neon founder Alex Kiam told Gizmodo in an email that the app’s servers are down while the team patches the vulnerability and conducts a security audit to ensure the issue doesn’t happen again.

Neon launched just last week and quickly shot to the number two spot on iPhone’s top free app chart before it was taken down on Thursday.

The app pays users who agree to record their calls and lets Neon sell those recordings and other data to AI companies to train their models and voice assistants. It was pitched as a way for people to earn some money from their data, which tech companies have long profit

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