A survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users by second-hand smartphone marketplace SellCell found that 73% of iPhone users and a whopping 87% of Samsung Galaxy users felt that AI adds little to no value to their smartphone experience.
SellCell only surveyed users with an AI-enabled phone – thats an iPhone 15 Pro or newer or a Galaxy S22 or newer. The survey doesn’t give an exact sample size, but more than 1,000 iPhone users and more than 1,000 Galaxy users were involved.
Further findings show that most users of either platform would not pay for an AI subscription: 86.5% of iPhone users and 94.5% of Galaxy users would refuse to pay for continued access to AI features.
From the data listed so far, it seems that people just aren’t using AI. In the case of both iPhone and Galaxy users about two-fifths of those surveyed have tried AI features – 41.6% for iPhone and 46.9% for Galaxy.
So, that’s a majority of users not even bothering with AI in the first place and a general disinterest in AI features from the user base overall, despite both Apple and Samsung making such a big deal out of AI.
I hate that i can no longer trust what comes out of my phone camera to be an accurate representation of reality. I turn off all the AI enhancement stuff but who knows what kind of fuckery is baked into the firmware.
NO, i dont want fake AI depth of field. NO, i do not want fake AI “makeup” fixing my ugly face. NO, i do not want AI deleting tourists in the background of my picture of the eiffel tower.
NO, i do not want AI curating my memories and reality. Sure, my vacation photos have shitty lighting and bad composition. But they are MY photos and MY memories of something i experienced personally. AI should not be “fixing” that for me
@9488fcea02a9 @ForgottenFlux I remember reading a whole article about how Samsung now just shoves a hi-res picture of the moon on top of pictures you take with the moon in so it looks like it takes impressive photos. Not sure if the scandal meant they removed that “feature” or not
It is absolutely useless for everyday simple tasks I find.
Who the fuck needs AI to SUMMARIZE an EMAIL, GOOGLE?
IT’S FIVE LINES
Get out of my face Gemini!
Yahoo was using their shitty AI tool to summarize emails THEN REPLACE THE FUCKING SUBJECT LINES WITH THE SUMMARY!
It immediately hallucinated raffle winners for a sneaker company and iirc they started getting death threats.
It’d be way less offensive if it was just present as an option, instead of dancing around flashing at me
Much like certain other trends like 3D TVs, this helps us see how often “visionaries” at the top of a company are charmed by ideas that no one on the ground is interested in. Same with blockchain, cryptocurrency, and so many other buzzwords.
So maybe I’ll mention it again: The Accountable Capitalism Act would require 40% of a company’s board be made up of democratically voted employees, who can provide more practical input about how top-level decisions would affect the people working there.
I can see why people thought 3d tvs were a great idea, until they actually experienced it for themselves. It also didn’t help that so much content wasn’t genuinely shot in 3d, either, but altered in post.
I have Google Gemini turned off on my pixel, because I find that it makes my experience genuinely worse.
I agree. The first thing I always disable is AI, also on the TV.
That’s because it is.
Pointless resource hogging bloatware.
People here like to shit on AI, but it has its use cases. It’s nice that I can search for “horse” in Google Photos and get back all pictures of horses and it is also really great for creating small scripts. I, however, do not need a LLM chatbot on my phone and I really don’t want it everywhere in every fucking app with a subscription model.
You type “horse” into google pictures and you get a bunch of AI generated pictures of what the model thinks horses look like.
The only thing is Google photos did that before AI was installed. Now I have to press two extra buttons to get to the old search method instead of using the new AI because the AI gives me the most bizarre results when I use it.
Exactly. My results with Gemini search are worse every single time
I love me some self-hosted ML models, such as Fooocus.
People wouldn’t shit on AI if it wasn’t needlessly crammed down our throats.
people wouldn’t shit on AI if it were actually replacing our jobs without taking our pay and creating a system of resource management free from human greed and error.
“AI” (as in LLMs for the sake of having LLMs accessible on your phone) is so fucking useless…
From a technical standpoint it’s pretty cool, I love playing around with Ollama on my PC every now and then.
But the average Joe seems to think it’s some magic being with absolute fucking knowledge you can talk to using your phone. Apart from being stupid, I think this might actually endanger human capabilities like critical thinking as well as reasoning and creativity.
So many people use “Chat Jippity” to look up stuff. I know google is enshitificated… but OH MY GOD.
After having mostly relevant Information available for everyone, the zone was flooded with Advertisement and FakeNews, and now the FakeNews are generated directly on the User’s device… no interaction and connection to anyone necessary.
I think the hate of AI does what you describe more than the actual AI
Yeah, no
Definitely is. It’s identical to the fear of immigrants. Like they just recycled the same articles. It’s manufactured outrage. It’ll either work or it doesn’t. We’ll find out. Not a big deal either way. Getting my information on this from media created by non tech literature journalists (who feel most threatened by AI) isn’t a great move. It’s like watching Fox News to stay on top of the latest immigration problems.
Take any articles on AI and put “immigrants” into the headline. It’s weird how it’s all the same crap. “They’re taking our jobs” “they threaten our way of life” “society can’t handle the influx of this thing”.
Although I think Steve Jobs was a real piece of shit, his product instincts were often on point, and his message in this video really stuck with me. I think companies shoehorning AI in everything would do well to start with something useful they want to enable and work backwards to the technology as he described here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48j493tfO-o
AI is a bad idea completely and if people cared at all about their privacy they should disable it.
It’s all well and good to say that AI categorises pictures and allows you to search for people and places in them, but how do you think that is accomplished? The AI scan and remembers every picture on your phone. Same with email summaries. It’s reading your emails too.
The ONLY assurance that this data isn’t being sent back to HQ is the companies word that it isn’t. And being closed source we have no possible way of auditing their use of data to see if that’s true.
Do you trust Apple and/or Google? Because you shouldn’t.
Especially now when setting up a new AI capable iPhone or iPad Apple Intelligence is enabled by DEFAULT.
It should be OPT-IN, not opt-out.
All AI can ever really do is invade your privacy and make humans even more stupid than they are already. Now they don’t even have to go to a search engine to look for things. They ask the AI and blindly believe what ever bullshit it regurgitates at them.
AI is dangerous on many levels because soon it will be deciding who gets hired for a new job, who gets seen first in the ER and who gets that heart transplant, and who dies.
With enough RAM and ideally a good GPU you can run smaller models (~8B Parameters) locally on your own device.
please burst that bubble already so i can get a cheap second hand server grade gpu
“PLEASE use our hilariously power inefficient wrongness machine.”
My kids school just did a survey and part of it included questions about teaching technology with a big focus on the use of AI. My response was “No” full stop. They need to learn how to do traditional research first so that they can spot check the error ridden results generated by AI. Damn it school, get off the bandwagon.
I suppose that’s exactly what they should be teaching.
And what exactly is the difference between researching shit sources on plain internet and getting the same shit via an AI, except manually it takes 6 hours and with AI it takes 2 minutes?
I say this as an education major, and former teacher. That being said, please keep fighting your PTA on this.
We didn’t get actually useful information in high school, partially because our parents didn’t think there was anything wrong with the curriculum.
I’m absolutely certain that there are multiple subjects that you may have skipped out on, if you’d had any idea that civics, shop, home economics, and maybe accounting were going to be the closest classes to “real world skills that all non collegate educated people still need to know.”
I regret not taking shop and home economics. Filing taxes and balancing checkbooks would be good skills to learn also.
Do I use Gen AI extensively?…
No but, do I find it useful?..…
Also no.
Doesn’t help that I don’t know what this “AI” is supposed to be doing on my phone.
Touch up a few photos on my phone? Ok go ahead, ill turn it off when I want a pure photography experience (or use a DSLR).
Text prediction? Yeah why not… I mean, is it the little things like that?
So it feels like either these companies dont know how to use “AI” or they dont know how to market it… or more likely they know one way to market it and the marketing department is driving the development. Im sure theres good uses but it seems like they dont want to put in the work and just give us useless ones.Useless for us, but not for them. They want us to use them like personalised confidante-bots so they can harvest our most intimate data
I recently got apple intelligence on my phone, and i had to google around to see what it really does. i couldn’t quite figure it out to be honest. I think it is related to siri somehow (which i have turned off, because why would that be on?) and apparently it could tie into an apple watch (which i don’t have), so i eventually concluded that it doesn’t do anything as of right now. Might be wrong though.
I do not need it, and I hate how it’s constantly forced upon me.
Current AI feels like the Metaverse. There’s no demand for it or need for it, yet they’re trying their damndest to shove it into anything and everything like it’s a new miracle answer to every problem that doesn’t exist yet.
And all I see it doing is making things worse. People use it to write essays in school; that just makes them dumber because they don’t have to show they understand the topic they’re writing. And considering AI doesn’t exactly have a flawless record when it comes to accuracy, relying on it for anything is just not a good idea currently.
If they write essays with it and the teacher is not checking their actual knowledge, the teacher is at fault, not the AI. AI is literally just a tool, like a pen or a ruler in school. Except much much bigger and much much more useful.
It is extremely important to teach children, how to handle AI properly and responsibly or else they will be fucked in the future.
I agree it is a tool, and they should be taught how to use it properly, but I disagree that is like a pen or a ruler. It’s more like a GPS or Roomba. Yes, they are tools that can make your life easier, but it’s better to learn how to read a map and operate a vacuum or a broom than to be taught to rely on the tool doing the hard work for you.
