DoorDash Pays Dashers to Film and Speak for AI Training, Raising Privacy Alarms Over Biometric Data Collection
Summary
DoorDash is paying delivery workers to film their surroundings and record their voices for AI training through a new feature called Tasks, but security experts warn the biometric and spatial data collected can never be deleted once embedded in AI systems, raising serious privacy alarms for participants and bystanders alike.
Key Points
- DoorDash launches a new feature called Tasks, paying Dashers to film everyday activities and record themselves speaking in other languages, with the data being used to train AI and robotic systems to understand the physical world.
- Security experts warn that once biometric or spatial data is baked into an AI system, it cannot be deleted or unlearned, and bad actors can exploit it simply by querying the AI — raising serious privacy concerns for both participants and bystanders captured incidentally.
- DoorDash is positioned to profit significantly by reselling this real-world data upstream, while contributors earn comparatively little, and the ease of the tasks risks drawing Dashers in without full awareness of the privacy trade-offs involved.