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.
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.
