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.
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.
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.
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.
Wait… Snapchat still exists?
What I’m gathering, it’s just the my selfie tool right? I’ve never bothered to set that up anyways
PSA: Can be switched off
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247238/snapchat-ai-my-selfie-feature-face-personalized-ads
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.
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.