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.
Snapchat hereby has the right to suck my ass.
*Snapchat reserves the right to use your ass in AI ads
Snapchat the next Day:
Ur gonna regret that harder than the poor souls making up the HumanCentiPad
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
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.
I’d say the same for Tiktok users. But that’s the popular platform, so it’s unpopular to criticize it.
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 why I deleted my account. May Snapchat rest in piss.
I honestly dont know why anyone would use this garbage app in the first place. it literally has no redeeming qualities.
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.
