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Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd say the same for Tiktok users. But that's the popular platform, so it's unpopular to criticize it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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.