Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
who the fuck asked for this
Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
Submitted 1 month ago by 0x0@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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absolutejank@lemmy.world 1 month ago
plz1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They probably saw the Virtual Try on from Google I/O and shit their pants
nagaram@startrek.website 1 month ago
That’s crazy.
Anyways I’m gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Penny7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
Probably until the influencers cash their paychecks and are forced to shill this bullshit to their moronic audiences.
marzhall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
theherk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jesus. Delet this.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).
Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The other option is bombing kids.
TwistedCister@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
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.
fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
…subscription services? For everything?
Manticore@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
That’s just the money their making itself. They keep deciding that subscriptions make money by removing ads.
Like, why not subscriptions that actually add something gainful? Nope, it’s just ads, or subscribe to less ads.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Don’t do that. The Amish are not good people.
grunge.com/…/the-dark-truth-about-amish-country/
We should all be more like the actual Luddites - they destroyed technology that was being used to exploit and/or displace workers.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let’s start a lemmite anti-tech community ironically full of tech nerds
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Move to somewhere with privacy laws
TrumpetX@programming.dev 1 month ago
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.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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!
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
TrumpetX@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
deadinside91@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This, the web installer basically does everything for you, so no way to fuck up unless you disconnect the phone during the setup. Also haven’t had any problems with banking apps and the like, though Eventim doesn’t seem to work.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s technically true but the default experience would be a challenge for most noobs. It takes a bit of work to get apps for typical stuff, have to go get Fdroid and allow install from other sources etc
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well I guess I’ll never buy another Samsung.
meejle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much “new = good.”
PlantJam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 month ago
The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues …
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
thepenismightier@lemm.ee 1 month ago
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
Meh. I just got a phone for free from some company I never heard of.
Best phone I ever had.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Was it apple? I just heard about them last week but they seem expensive
Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
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.
HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I hate everything about this title.
disco@lemdro.id [bot] 1 month ago
Absolutely wild clown show we’re living in
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Crabhands@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
You could just use a phone not made by a major manufacturer.
I have one from Orbic and it’s great.
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Does Orbic run anything aside from stock android?
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
I can’t wait to get a Linux phone.
cotlovan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s hard, without UEFI for arm
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
I swear, the rest of my life will just be educating my peers on how consumerist rhetoric does not serve their interests.
J52@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Just want to say that Call of duty Black Ops II was pretty fucking accurate up to this point.
- We have drone strikes.
- Personalised face ads.
- worldwide conflicts
- a fight for rare earth minerals
But I guess Treyarch was too optimistic about having a women as a POTUS
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Don’t forget warfare using quadcopter drones, albeit without the machine gun.
mhague@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve seen guns, bigger guns, and also flamethrower drones.
JollyGreen_sasquatch@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn’t like their UI.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That’s… A really good idea
Time to redesign my phone case
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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.
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
“They’re a business and they need to make money.” - useful idiots
kamen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not even useful IMO, just idiots.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yet more discrimination against faceless people
utopiah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Minority Report, the bad parts.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Could they not?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If companies don’t push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.
So…what’ll probably happen:
- Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
- A year will go by Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
- A year will go by and it’s a part of every Huawei and moto phone on the market.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
This is the way.
pixelkitty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s gonna be a yikes from me dawg
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 1 month ago
What the fuck.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have a galaxy. I disabled the Galaxy AI. I disabled the Google 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. But, now there is yet more AI for me to disable?
viking@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
At that point I’d just get a dumb phone for calls and a tablet with data only SIM for the rest.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
What did you do to get OSM working properly? I’ve not used it enough to get to know it because it’s not been reliable enough for me. But a couple of times it’s taken me as far as a road, but didn’t know where on the road my destination was.
CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Donate to Graphene if you have the means.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
OP12R allows facescreen to unlock, but i disabled it.