Snapchat is reserving the right to put its users’ faces in ads, according to terms of service related to its “My Selfie” tool (formerly “AI Selfies”), which allows users and their friends to create AI-generated images trained on their selfies.
Users have the option to opt out of this by toggling off a “feature” in the app called “See My Selfie in Ads,” but according to 404 Media’s testing this feature is on by default.
I think i still have an account of it, but I haven’t agreed to anything, so I should be good, right…? Anyone know?
You think that will stop them? They’ll just do it and pay a comparatively small fine to the government in a decade after they get around to investigating it. And that’s the best case scenario. More realistically nothing will ever happen.
Yeah i fear that… i should probably just delete my account
That won’t stop them either. They’ll just use it anyway. These companies never delete anything they might be able to use. At least not willingly.
What I’m gathering, it’s just the my selfie tool right? I’ve never bothered to set that up anyways
Archive link
Sadly it’s not responding at the moment. At least for me.
Ah yeah, I’m not getting any response from https://archive.ph/ right now :/
Snapchat hereby has the right to suck my ass.
*Snapchat reserves the right to use your ass in AI ads
Ur gonna regret that harder than the poor souls making up the HumanCentiPad
Snapchat the next Day:
Oh no! Another thing I don’t use turning out to be shitty.
I can’t think of a way for this to be legal in the EU by any capacity. I really don’t. They’re essentially claiming they own your likeness just by using their app and I really doubt it’s that simple. It’s kind of like asking for your first born in a readme.txt of a github script. Just because you write something ridiculous doesn’t mean it’s legal.
No, but they’ll try because the citizens aren’t rebelling against it yet.
they know that the type of people who use snapchat of all fucking things either don’t give a shit, or are too ignorant to see it as an issue. if they ever read about this at all. at the end of the day, they know that not enough people will ditch the platform to make any difference
I’d say the same for Tiktok users. But that’s the popular platform, so it’s unpopular to criticize it.
I really did think that a Chinese social media company would never stand a chance here. I run into 80 year old farmers who ask me, “Did you see ‘at feller on TikTok who does ‘at thang with the tractor?”
That same person will go on and on about China. People are neat.
For anyone that has friends that can be convinced to move off snapchat:
- it doesn’t actually delete things after the timer goes out, it just hides it from view. Sometimes the app bugs out and that data will be accessible again
- signal has stories and the same format of disappearing messages
- everything else that’s good about signal
If what they want is the “One weird trick your doctor is hiding from you” style content on the discover page, then I got nothing.
Bye Snapchat.
If you don’t use that feature, it’s a non issue. Right?
It’s the principle of the thing. These companies keep overreaching all the time.
Yeah. I suppose. It would have been better from a security/privacy standpoint for it to be an opt-in vs an opt-out.
If they would have had two working brain cells they would have made it opt in and made a contest told them that one lucky person will win $10,000.
That’s the thing though. They know nobody would ever do this voluntarily.
Or to not do it to begin with.
Name checks out…
No. Just no. Not even going to highlight anything from this article.
Doesn’t seem to exist at all in EU. Disgusting either way.
PSA: Can be switched off
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247238/snapchat-ai-my-selfie-feature-face-personalized-ads
Wait… Snapchat still exists?
I mean, this is dumb, but it’s only ads specifically shown to you so it isn’t really a privacy issue. The headline seems like it’s intentionally trying to make it seem a lot worse than it is
It’s still not a feature that users asked for. Hence why making it in the first place, is hiding some darker and creepier objectives.
I mean yeah it’s a stupid feature that they probably shouldn’t have, I just think the headline is super misleading since it implies they would use your face to advertise to to others which isn’t true.
The fact they think I want to see my face in ads, is dumb beyond belief. And they spent money on that lol.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said
“faster horses.“surveillance capitalism.
I don’t why you are so downvoted. Your comment didn’t come off as shilling for Snapchat or anything, and it just clarifies things for people who only read the headline. I appreciate the clarification.
This is still an invasion of privacy, but not quite as egregious as using people’s faces in global advertisements. Obligatory fuck Snapchat, regardless.
Snapneck
That’s why I deleted my account. May Snapchat rest in piss.
I cannot, I have had it for over a decade at this rate I think and my number associated is old now and I can’t log into to the website to delete. I can log into the app and use it but cannot delete it.
