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.
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.
Or to not do it to begin with.
That’s the thing though. They know nobody would ever do this voluntarily.
Name checks out…
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
No. Just no. Not even going to highlight anything from this article.
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 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.
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 :/
Snapneck
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.
Doesn’t seem to exist at all in EU. Disgusting either way.
What I’m gathering, it’s just the my selfie tool right? I’ve never bothered to set that up anyways
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.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said
“faster horses.“surveillance capitalism.
