Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

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.

who the fuck asked for this

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.

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.

Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.

And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?

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

The moment I see myself in an ad, I'm giving up on technology and joining the Amish.

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.

Are techbros so bland that they really can't think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn't just 'ads'?

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.

Well I guess I'll never buy another Samsung.

I hate everything about this title.

Absolutely wild clown show we're living in

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.

Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?

, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.

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

LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.

Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn't like their UI.

Yet more discrimination against faceless people

Minority Report, the bad parts.

Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.

Could they not?

That's gonna be a yikes from me dawg

What the fuck.

I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness

sighs....typing this on an S23 Ultra. I can't wait to get a pixel to degoogle.

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.

I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million

these kind of creepy stuff make me more glad I’m on iPhone.

I freaking hate the future, man. I’m so sick of this shit.

This is "opt in"

For now.

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.

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.

so i guess i'm going to hold on the the pixel 8 for as long as i can then......

Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.

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"

Other bloat on the list of stuff to remove using ADB

This is why iPhone is better, bros :)

Well that sounds like techno fash rape

Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.

who the fuck is going to buy anything that's endorsed by my ugly mug?

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.

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?

I'm trying to think of something more fucked up, but I'm struggling, here.

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?

SamsungOS has always failed to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. You asked for this. You let them do it.

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?

After reading this, Samsung likely scrambled after the I/O virtual try on feature announcement last month and whored themselves out to whomever would give them these features.

oh noes...the evil guys do evil shit...

even funnier: i want to be cool and on the edge but not use iphone why wont android do?

if you support american corporations you are the problem. you are more of a problem then the company itself. still use windows? think iPhones are great? LinkedIn? Insta? WhatsApp?

EVERY argument I heard was shit. each and every one. "I need it to be part of group x"...."cant work without"....any everytime the shit human just told a lie. the real problem was the absolute lack of character and backbone.

so i applaud Samsung! the monkey human wants to be treated as such. give them taylor swift, iphones and slap some ai into their "social" feed. cattle loves it!

If you use your face to unlock your phone, you kind of deserve this...