Smart security camera company Eufy offered owners of its products $2 to submit videos it could use to train its artificial intelligence software in a campaign that ran last winter. As reported earlier by TechCrunch , Eufy launched a promotion to collect 20,000 videos of package thefts and 20,000 videos of people pulling on car doors. For the purposes of the campaign, it didn't matter if the videos were real or if owners staged the videos.

The concept of services directly paying customers for data or content that will be used to train AI software is still fairly uncommon. Recently, a popular app called Neon offered to pay people for recordings of their phone calls that it would then sell to AI companies. That app is currently on hold while the company addresses security issues, but

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