Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
This is why iPhone is better, bros :)
Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
Submitted 11 months ago by 0x0@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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atlien51@lemm.ee 11 months ago
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Sucksung customers, iirc, at least have an option to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM that doesn’t phone corporates whatsoever. Iphones, tho, will always phone crapple, so that’s a questionable choice as well.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lineage (privacy focused) & e/os (+de-googled) android is the way
Even supports like 2013(?) Phones with new security updates
At least a lot of phones that dont get software support anymore still have very good hardware
Penny7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
Probably until the influencers cash their paychecks and are forced to shill this bullshit to their moronic audiences.
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
disco@lemdro.id [bot] 11 months ago
Absolutely wild clown show we’re living in
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 11 months ago
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
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 gack> always needed a Samsung version.
Samsung is good in hardware and bad in software.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I had the S3 and it was barely usable after some years. Threw… What was lineage before the switch? Cyanogen? … on it and it ran like never before. Samsung software is dogshit.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is there any other brands that make phones with pen support, and doesn’t drop support for their phones the moment they come up with a design with a slightly upgraded chip?
frostysauce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Motorola.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 months 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.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I’m trying to think of something more fucked up, but I’m struggling, here.
TrumpetX@programming.dev 11 months 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 11 months 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!
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months 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
deadinside91@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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 11 months ago
It’s more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
andybytes@programming.dev 11 months ago
Well that sounds like techno fash rape
J52@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could they not?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 months 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 11 months ago
This is the way.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
who the fuck is going to buy anything that’s endorsed by my ugly mug?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
these kind of creepy stuff make me more glad I’m on iPhone.
just2look@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Apple is also joining the ‘AI’ game. They have been bragging about all their ‘AI’ garbage in their new phones. That is specifically why I just got rid of my iPhone. I’m happy with GrapheneOS where they don’t want my info, and have shown no signs of wanting to shove ‘AI’ into any of my things.
Makhno@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh sweet summer child
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Samsung robot army will make an uprising really difficult
absolutejank@lemmy.world 11 months ago
who the fuck asked for this
plz1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
They probably saw the Virtual Try on from Google I/O and shit their pants
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
pelya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How long until we get self-insert AI porn?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I’d fuck me…
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
After reading this, j guarantee Samsung scrambled after the I/O virtual try on feature and whored themselves out to whomever would give them these features
Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
what a pile of fuck
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
This is “opt in”
For now.
Z3k3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who’s opting into being advertised at more
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Everybody who uses Google and Samsung products.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Move to somewhere with privacy laws
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
meejle@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues …
PlantJam@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 11 months ago
The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much “new = good.”
pixelkitty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s gonna be a yikes from me dawg
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 11 months ago
What the fuck.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.
utopiah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Minority Report, the bad parts.