Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.
Gross.
I'm currently in the process of moving everything over to a pixel running GrapheneOS and am glad to be doing so because of shit exactly like this.
I just want technology that does what I want it to and doesn't spy on me. Shouldn't be this hard especially if I pay for the product.
Did the same thing last September, my S21 Ultra's battery was getting tired and I was tired of the Samsung bullshit. So far it's been great and so has battery life, plus it's a breath of fresh air to only have apps I want installed without needing ADB to remove them after Google/Samsung decides they want them reinstalled every few weeks.
Only downfalls have been my broken banking app (which might be the actual app being broken based on Google Play reviews) and the amount of tweaking I needed to do to get OSM as my default map for Android Auto.
I finally have a phone that actually feels like mine, not just a leased device from the manufacturer.
Same here man. Was using an s20 for a long time and was generally happy with it but after moving to an s22 due to charging issues, I wasn't happy with the way that Samsung changed things. I don't like how they often try to force a Samsung account.
And I REALLY don't like this. I should never have to look at baked in ads in my OS that I paid for. I don't care if its just on the lockscreen because you know that's only the beginning.
"Watch this 30 second ad to change your wallpaper"
No thanks dude.
Donate to Graphene if you have the means.
OP12R allows facescreen to unlock, but i disabled it.
That's crazy.
Anyways I'm gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.
This is excellent.
Our entire internet ecosystem is the "frog in boiling water" metaphor.. They just keep turning the heat up.. we need to delete the entire internet and re-work it from the ground up... somehow
I actually don't agree with this, because while Facebook, X, Amazon, Ai and Google are all the front of the internet, they still aren't all of it. The small web is still churning along with selfhosted blogs and neocities, selfhosted apps are everywhere, some, like Disroot, even open to the public.
People willingly choose to use this garbage and let it into their lives. There's millions of sites and services to see, but people stick with familiarity.
It's like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there's other restaurants everywhere.
Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won't be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.
Thousands of pictures of regular people's faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They're definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.
OK, so the people making these claims are filing a GDPR complaint, right?
Being paranoid online is not useful at all. This isn't great as it is:
We've looked over Glance's AI privacy policy, and nothing stands out as unusual for the tech industry (which still isn't good). By using the service, you agree to some tracking, including your general location, and some of that data will be shared with partners. However, this all feels a bit more creepy when a service is churning out AI images of you.
...but if you think on top of everything else they are lying about selling your personally identifiable info that is a GDPR violation (and a violation of privacy laws in multiple other territories) and you should immediately file a complaint. Because it is illegal. And yes, it will get investigated and a fine will be set. GDPR violations are constantly being flagged and fined.
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
Probably until the influencers cash their paychecks and are forced to shill this bullshit to their moronic audiences.
Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where "your friend" suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends
Jesus. Delet this.
Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).
Or the other way around.
Remember those atrocious sexist Axe body spray ads where men get rejected by women until they shower themselves with deodorant? Imagine that but with your own face. And the face of your crush as the women rejecting you because the algorithm knows anyways.
Delightfully devilish...
Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I've been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.
Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don't need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
It's more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
I'm thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
Are techbros so bland that they really can't think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn't just 'ads'?
The other option is bombing kids.
The other option is creating a reliable, high quality product that people want and creates value for the user. This was how most businesses operated before Jack Fucking Welch.
But it’s easier to force slop, ads, and slop-made ads on people.
...subscription services? For everything?
That's just the money their making itself. When it comes down to what are we subscribing for, it keeps being ads again. They keep deciding that subscriptions make money by removing ads.
Like, why not subscriptions that actually add something gainful? Subscribe to stream your games to any TV, subscribe to get dog food delivered to your house monthly, subscribe to Socks of the Month Club. Those things exist in other industries, but tech?? Nope, it's just ads, or subscribe to less ads.
Well I guess I'll never buy another Samsung.
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?
I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much "new = good."
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues ....
I was just sitting there looking at the cool art I have as a lockscreen wallpaper and im thinking, man I wish my phone would scan my face and place an ai slop image with my face badly right on my lock screen. Thank god Samsung is so in touch with what features consumers want added to their $1000 devices.
This is what makes me excited for Linux phones to finally become viable. Every major phone manufacturer is making their UX worse and expanding their hidden spyware for the sake of profits.
Graphene os is great but you can only install it on a Pixel. But they give extended support for older devices which is nice. HOWEVER, people are making Linux builds for even older devices, including the iphone 6. Getting a new phone after 7 years might not be necessary in the future.
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
It used to be that phone technology improved relatively quickly, and a 2 year old phone was significantly worse than the latest and greatest. Now, not so much. I use a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on the latest tech. The camera is great, certainly more than good enough for me, and the phone is responsive and does everything I need it to do, and it's 3+ generations old. I see no need to spend $1000+ on a new phone.
And that’s their choice to. But some people are sick of planned obsolescence and wish to use their phones for as long as the hardware doesn’t give.
I can't wait to get a Linux phone.
It's hard, without UEFI for arm
I hate everything about this title.
Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?
I swear, the rest of my life will just be educating my peers on how consumerist rhetoric does not serve their interests.
Absolutely wild clown show we're living in
, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn't like their UI.
Just want to say that Call of duty Black Ops II was pretty fucking accurate up to this point.
But I guess Treyarch was too optimistic about having a women as a POTUS
Don't forget warfare using quadcopter drones, albeit without the machine gun.
I've seen guns, bigger guns, and also flamethrower drones.
LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.
That's... A really good idea
Time to redesign my phone case
I have one for my pixel 7. I also put a small square of electrical tape over my front camera. I know I sound paranoid, but I just don't like a camera staring at me while I'm looking at my phone. I also rarely take selfies so a front camera is pretty much pointless for me.
Yet more discrimination against faceless people
"They're a business and they need to make money." - useful idiots
Not even useful IMO, just idiots.
Minority Report, the bad parts.
Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.
That's gonna be a yikes from me dawg
What the fuck.
Could they not?
If companies don't push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.
So...what'll probably happen:
This is the way.
I have a galaxy. I disabled the Galaxy AI. I disabled the Google AI on my phone, and I blocked Google search AI. I disabled Microsoft AI. I think ATT has one that listens in on calls to warn you of a call being a scam, but I haven't figured out how to disable that. Many of my calls are privileged under atty/client privilege, so have someone or something else in on that risks waving that. I want to disable it, but I don't know how. I tried to disable Yahoo's email AI. But, now there is yet more AI for me to disable?
Dear tech companies, please stop shoving AI down my throat. I really don't want it.
sighs....typing this on an S23 Ultra. I can't wait to get a pixel to degoogle.
GrapheneOS is the way.
My locked bootloader snapdragon 8 gen 2 is telling me to fuck myself with a sock filled with broken glass right now.
I'd recommend CalyxOS as a replacement os.
No google code at all to get full functionality of your hardware (excluding Google pay, but graphene doesn't have that either.)
Anything you need, e.g. swipe typing or advanced camera features, you can install Google's versions and block their ability to talk to the internet via the built-in firewall.
I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
I freaking hate the future, man. I’m so sick of this shit.
Fascinating stuff.
I do think there will eventually be pushback against the current oligarch model of technology, but it is likely I will be much older when it happens.
Just the nature of history. We are pretty early in the information age.
The Samsung robot army will make an uprising really difficult
This is "opt in"
For now.
Who's opting into being advertised at more
Everybody who uses Google and Samsung products.
Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.
so i guess i'm going to hold on the the pixel 8 for as long as i can then......
Do I want my face in ads? No. Not at all.
Would I want this same tech used to character swap myself into movies, or just swap actors in whatever? ...okay yeah that might be kinda fun novelty.
You get ads, you get ads, everyone gets ads!
Samprah.
Look under your chair... It's an ad!!
Yay. Because what the world needs right now is more ads
Someone at Samsung submitted a user story only to troll, and it worked "I need you to drain my phone battery and data plan for ads when I dont even look at it"
Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.
who the fuck is going to buy anything that's endorsed by my ugly mug?
Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.
Well that sounds like techno fash rape
I'm trying to think of something more fucked up, but I'm struggling, here.
Don't they know how ugly the common people are. I'm not gonna buy something with an ugly guy in the ad. We ain't all plastic surgery Korean like Samsung home base.
I have an ancient Samsung. Its going to die soon. I don't think I can get a pixel here. What are my options, coz I also hate apple?
Just get a mid-range Samsung device and remove the relevant apps and get a custom launcher.
Or get a Fairphone if you can afford it.
Doubling down on Fairphone, however I heard rumors that perhaps a new model will be announced this year, so maybe wait for that (if this is true of course).
You could also just buy a new Samsung but install a different OS on it, but I remember that there are some caveats with bootloader being left unlocked and Knox security getting in the way.
I am in a similar situation with my Samsung dying (even though its S22+, which is not that old) and looking through a ton of variants, didn't reach a conclusion yet though.
what a pile of fuck
Haven't Samsungs always been trash though? From a software perspective, I mean?
I've never owned one, but I've tried to troubleshoot a few for relatives, and always found their version of Android to be just cunty.
Yeah, always their own version of
<popular google app>
, used by 2 people per month but always running in background. I heard they feared to be thrown out of "Android" certificate program (no Play Store anymore).Their launcher was always slow and laggy and a ressource hog and only got better, because hardware got better.
My last Samsung was to Kitkat times (Galaxy S3) but even then the whole boot chain was basically custom made (guess for knox) and you had to use their proprietary paid software to edit boot animations. And
<fancy hack>
always needed a Samsung version.Sadly, dad is Samsung fan because i have to disable half of preinstalled apps and replace with better alternatives, once he gets a new phone.
Basically, Samsung is good at hardware and bad at software.
They used to push their own apps way too hard, and had a terrible UI. But it is a lot better these days. As is evident in this article they are still pieces of shit.
Yeah they have, my uncle had a cheaper Samsung and in the sound settings there was a button for samsung sound settings, which had the exact same settings, but they acted differently. Some acted the same and would also change say a slider on the normal menu and some wouldn't.
They have always had good hardware I think, but their firmware and apps went total shit years ago. I liked their old ones like the S5 and S4 that had notification LEDs and unlockable bootloaders for custom ROMs
Never heard of glance. It's an ai shopping tool? I couldn't make sense of it, but I didn't spend much time either.
How long until we get self-insert AI porn?
I'd fuck me...
What??
So, how much will they pay me to opt in?
$0
Useful idiots will be clamoring to pay them.