Technology

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 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.

I hate everything about this title.

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.

Absolutely wild clown show we're living in

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

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

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.

Minority Report, the bad parts.

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

Could they not?

What the fuck.

That's gonna be a yikes from me dawg

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

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.