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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.

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[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

The consumer-side AI that a handful of multi-billion-dollar companies keep peddling to us is just a way for them to attempt to justify AI to us. Otherwise, it consumes MASSIVE amounts of our energy capacities and is primarily being used in ways that harm us.

And, of course, there's nothing they direct at us that isn't ultimately (and solely) for their benefit--our every use of their AI helps train their models, and eventually it will simply be groups of billionaires competing against one another to form the most powerful model that allows them to dominate us and their competitors.

As long as this technology remains determined by those whose entire existence is organized around domination, it will be a sum harm to all of us. We'd have to free it from their grips to make it meaningful in our daily lives.

[–] lack@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Apple Intelligence is trash and only lasted 2 days on my 16 pro. Not turning it back on either.

[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I’m on my iPhone 12 since it came out in sept 2020 (I bought it on Halloween 2020 lol) and apart from battery health being 77%, I have NO reasons to upgrade and even then, I’ll change the battery when it gets to 70% and… that’s it.

Phones just aren’t exciting anymore. I used to watch so much phone reviews on YouTube and now they are all just.. the same. Folding phones aren’t that interesting for me. I saw that there is a new battery technology, but that’s like the only new fun feature I’m interested in.

Most performance upgrades aren’t used in the real world and AI suuuuucks

[–] NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I’m a software engineer and GitHub Copilot as an AI pair programmer has vastly improved my productivity. Also, I use ChatGPT extensively to help with miscellaneous stuff. Apart from these two, I don’t really find other AI implementations useful.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 39 minutes ago

I’m a software engineer and GitHub Copilot as an AI pair programmer has vastly improved my productivity

lol

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 hours ago

Repititive task scaling, nothing more. No high quality expectations either

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@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

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Who the fuck needs AI to SUMMARIZE an EMAIL, GOOGLE?

The executives who don't do any real work, pretend they do (chiefly to themselves), and make ALL of the purchasing decisions despite again not doing any real work.

[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

Or the shitty notification summary. If someone wrote something to me, then it’s important enough for me to read it. I don’t need 3 bullet points with distorted info from AI.

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

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.

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[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is what happens when companies prioritize hype over privacy and try to monetize every innovation. Why pay €1,500 for a phone only to have basic AI features? AI should solve real problems, not be a cash grab.

Imagine if AI actually worked for users:

  • Show me all settings to block data sharing and maximize privacy.
  • Explain how you optimized my battery last week and how much time it saved.
  • Automatically silence spam calls without selling my data to third parties.
  • Detect and block apps that secretly drain data or access my microphone.
  • Automatically organize my photos by topic without uploading them to the cloud.
  • Make everything i could do with TASKER with only just saying it in plain words.
[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Make everything i could do with TASKER with only just saying it in plain words.

Stop, I can only get so hard.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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 could actually see 3D TVs taking off, even with the requirement for glasses. At the time, there was a fad for 3D movies in theaters. But, they needed to have gotten with content creators so that there was a reason to own one. There was no content, so no one invested, so probably in a year or two there's going to be some Youtubers making videos of "I finally found Sony's forgotten 3D TV."

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

That's because it is.

Pointless resource hogging bloatware.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have Google Gemini turned off on my pixel, because I find that it makes my experience genuinely worse.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I agree. The first thing I always disable is AI, also on the TV.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what does AI do on a TV, other than voice recognition?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 34 minutes ago

Steal more data

[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"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.

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[–] Obelix@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Most of the identification of things like 'horses' falls in line with the identification of things like 'crosswalks' and 'motorcycles'--in other words, the majority of the words associated with particular images in Google maps comes from people like us filling out Captcha, not from AI.

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

You type "horse" into google pictures and you get a bunch of AI generated pictures of what the model thinks horses look like.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People wouldn't shit on AI if it wasn't needlessly crammed down our throats.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] NRBQ@lemmy.studio 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dkiscoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Exactly. My results with Gemini search are worse every single time

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[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate that nowadays AI == LLM/chatbot.

I love the AI classifiers that keep me safe from spam or that help me categorise pictures. I love the AI based translators that allow me to write in virtually any language almost like a real speaker.

What I hate is these super advanced stocastic parrots that manage to pass the Turing test and, so, people assume they think.

I am pretty sure that they asked specifically about LLM/chatbots the percentage of people not caring would be even higher

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[–] Stormy1701@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] melfie@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

"PLEASE use our hilariously power inefficient wrongness machine."

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