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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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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

I only really use AI shit on my work computer (because hooray I have a Copilot license), and its only marginally better than doing searches myself. Its nice when it works because it lets me save time researching things, but I CONSTANTLY have to ask "are you sure that's real?" because it just fucking makes up random command flags based on the prompt.

And its only marginally better because fucking search engines have their head so far up their ass they can see their tonsils. Godsdammit I want working search engines back.

[–] Redbranch1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I planned to skip this generation, assuming this would be the year of useless ai cramming, even though my phone was getting old. Samsung was so desperate to sell s25s upgrading was essentially less than staying with my current model. Bought it, and turned all that mess off

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used it once. Told it to pretend to be a centaur from Mars and explain how centaur sex works. Pretty fucking funny, but yeah it was a one-off.

[–] astro_plane@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

....so how does centaur sex work? Don't leave us hanging!

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And how does breast feeding work? Is it from the human tit or the horse tit?

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[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

AI was never meant for the average person but the average person had to be convinced it was for funding.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 day ago

"useless" is a more positive impression than I have.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A damning result for AI pump and dump scammers.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

every NVDA earnings call lol. Old man Jenson had a (chip) farm, AI AI OH! guy literally said AI almost 100 times in a call.

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[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Id take Bixby back over this forced AI crap.

I mean I wouldn't but you know....

Bixby is the 8th or 9th best kitchen timer I've ever accidentally bought.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Not sure if Google Lens counts as AI, but Circle to Search is a cool feature. And on Samsung specifically there is Smart Select that I occasionally use for text extraction, but I suppose it is just OCR.

From Galaxy AI branded features I have tested only Drawing assist which is an image generator. Fooled around for 5 minutes and have not touched it again. I am using Samsung keyboard and I know it has some kind of text generator thing, but have not even bothered myself to try it.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not sure if Google Lens counts as AI, but Circle to Search is a cool feature.

Not to the point where it's worth having a button for it permanently taking up space at the bottom of the screen.

On a lot of phones you can hide the navigation pill, but Samsung started forcibly showing it when they added Circle to Search. Fortunately I don't have a Samsung phone.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

I'm shocked, I tell you. Absolutely shocked. And if you believe that, I got some oceanfront property in Arizona. I'll sell you too.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I have never used this bixbi AI

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t see how AI can benefit my phone experience.

I use my phone to make phone calls and for text messaging. Where does AI fit in? It doesn’t.

[–] graphene@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

But imagine!!! What if AI could write your text messages for you and convincingly hold phone calls??? Then you wouldn't have to use your phone to interact with human beings at all!!!

~Why does anyone want this?~

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sometimes I wonder what is going to happen to all this tech in 4 or so years when its less profitable to keep the AI centers on.

Right now they are "free" because of all the investment that is going on. But they have a huge maintenance/energy cost.

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[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It's all just to get more data from you so it can monetized.

[–] keiznklei@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ye, students are currently one of the few major benefactors of LLMs lol.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Not sure students are necessarily benefiting? The point of education isn't to hand in completed assignments. Although my wife swears that the Duolingo AI is genuinely helping her with learning French so I guess maybe, depending on how it's being used

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

The first thing I do with a new phone is turn off any kind of assistance.

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

It is, for everybody mostly.

[–] haych@lemmy.one 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

On Samsung they got rid of a perfectly good screenshot tool and replaced it with one that has AI, it's slower, clunky, and not as good, I just want them to revert it. If I wanted AI I'd download an app.

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[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Am I crazy? I’ve got this thing writing code and listing website listings. I ask it certain things before Google and just have it give me the source. I use it to sum up huge documents to quickly analyze them before I go through them. Feels like how Google felt I when it first came out. Yall using the same ai?

(Apple ai is not what I’m talking about)

[–] anonvurr@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

You're not crazy. AI is an useful tool I use daily for quickly summarizing things and for writing code that would otherwise be tedious as hell. I also use it for tips on certain issues in code for learning.

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