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.
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.
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 :/
Snapneck
No. Just no. Not even going to highlight anything from this article.
Snapchat hereby has the right to suck my ass.
Ur gonna regret that harder than the poor souls making up the HumanCentiPad
Snapchat the next Day:
*Snapchat reserves the right to use your ass in AI ads
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.
Bye Snapchat.
If you don’t use that feature, it’s a non issue. Right?
Name checks out…
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.
That’s the thing though. They know nobody would ever do this voluntarily.
Or to not do it to begin with.
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.
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.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.
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.
Oh no! Another thing I don’t use turning out to be shitty.
Wait… Snapchat still exists?
PSA: Can be switched off
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247238/snapchat-ai-my-selfie-feature-face-personalized-ads
LoL good luck with my fucked up face!
Doesn’t seem to exist at all in EU. Disgusting either way.
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.
