Glance AI is coming to numerous Samsung phones as an opt-in experience this month.

Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.

  • Manticore@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    6 months ago

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

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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.

  • ViscloReader@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 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.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      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.

        • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Do you have the portrait right? or some other kind of right that is being harmed by this feature? if so yes you can file a complaint and/or sue them.

  • Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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.

  • marzhall@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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

          • marzhall@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Lol, I want to believe it was someone who wanted to slow the spread of this concept in the world, lashing out against it the only way they could.

            That said I’ve def bookmarked that episode for watching. I lost track of Black MIrror, it’s a bit tough in that it’s so grim that each episode doesn’t really leave you wanting to watch the next one in my experience. But it’s had some bangers.

            • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).

              Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.

              • marzhall@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                6 months ago

                After having watched it (it was good, watched it with the buddy who had the idea and without telling him why we were watching it, he had a laugh the first time it happened), if you found it a real struggle, definitely don’t read this article about a real company that made a brain implant for epileptics and went under of which the episode heavily reminded me.

  • TrumpetX@programming.devEnglish
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    6 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.caEnglish
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      6 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.worldEnglish
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        6 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

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.

    This is excellent.

    • nukeforyou@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      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

  • Penny7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.

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

  • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 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.worldEnglish
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      6 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