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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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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A damning result for AI pump and dump scammers.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days 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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[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

AI is not there to be useful for you. It is there to be useful for them. It is a perfect tool for capturing every last little thought you could have and direct to you perfectly on what they can sell you.

It's basically one big way to sell you shit. I promise we will follow the same path as most tech. It'll be useful for some stuff and in this case it's being heavily forced upon us whether we like it or not. Then it's usefulness will be slowly diminished as it's used more heavily to capitalize on your data, thoughts, writings, code, and learn how to suck every last dollar from you whether you're at work or at home.

It's why DeepSeek spent so little and works better. They literally were just focusing on the tech.

All these billions are not just being spent on hardware or better optimized software. They are being spent on finding the best ways to profit from these AI systems. It's why they're being pushed into everything.

You won't have a choice on whether you want to use it or not. It'll soon by the only way to interact with most systems even if it doesn't make sense.

Mark my words. When Google stops standard search on their home page and it's a fucking AI chat bot by default. We are not far off from that.

It's not meant to be useful for you.

[–] astro_plane@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Yes, it seems like no one even read the damn user agreement. AI just adds another level to our surveillance state. Its only there to collect information about you and to figure out the inner workings of its users minds to sell ads. Gemini even listens to your conversations if you have the quick access toggle enabled.

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[–] melfie@lemmings.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

It actually gets in my way every time it does something so that I have stop what I'm doing to kill it. Would love to be able to uninstall it

[–] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago

Ai sucks and is a waste of humanity’s resources. I hate how everything goes on buzzwords industry trends. This shit needs to stop and just focus on simplicity and reliability. We need to stop trying to sell new things every cycle

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Robaque@feddit.it 9 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days 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.

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[–] astro_plane@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I side graded from a iPhone 12 to an Xperia as a toy to tinker around with recently and I disabled Gemini on my phone not long after it let me join the beta.

Everything seemed half baked. Not only were the awnsers meh and it felt like an invasion of privacy after reading to user agreement. Gemini can't even play a song on your phone, or get you directions home, what an absolute joke.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Ironically, on my Xperia 1 VI (which I specifically chose as my daily driver because of all the compromises on flagship phones from other brands) I had the only experience where I actually felt like a smartphone feature based on machine learning helped my experience, even though the Sony phones had practically no marketing with the AI buzzwords at all.

Sony actually trained a machine learning model for automatically identifying face and eye location for human and animal subjects in the built-in camera app, in order to be able to keep the face of your subject in focus at all time regardless how they move around. Allegedly it's a very clever solution trained for identifying skeletal position to in turn identify head and eye positions, it works particularly well for when your subject moves around quickly which is where this is especially helpful.

And it works so incredibly well, wayyyyy better than any face tracking I had on any other smartphone or professional camera, it made it so so much easier for me to take photos and videos of my super active kitten and pet mice lol

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days 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.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Tbf most people have no clue how to use it nor even understand what "AI" even is.

I just taught my mom how to use circle to search and it's a real game changer for her. She can quickly lookup on-screen items (like plants shes reading about) from an image and the on-screen translation is incredible.

Also circle to search gets around link and text copy blocking giving you back the same freedoms you had on a PC.

Personally I'd never go back to a phone without circle to search - its so under-rated and a giant shift in smartphone capabilities.

Its very likely that we'll have full live screen reading assistants in the near future which can perform circle to search like functions and even visual modifications live. It's easy to dismiss this as a gimmick but there's a lot of incredible potential here especially for casual and older users.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days 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.

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

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

[–] ChiefGyk3D@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago

It's really pointless to most people, it has its use case. But it was just a hype train everyone got on like a few years ago many did with blockchain, another nice technology but only for certain use cases. I don't want nor need an always on AI to search through my phone and spy on me. I have already had overbearing exes try that. It's actually a big reason I am considering switching to a Pixel 10 as my next phone and just installing Graphene OS and calling it a day as my daily driver.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Id take Bixby back over this forced AI crap.

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

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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days 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.

[–] haych@lemmy.one 12 points 4 days 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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[–] Redbranch1@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (6 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.

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days 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.

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[–] QuarkVsOdo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Generative AI is peaking in it's ability to produce cringe boomer memes from a prompt. Everything else.. MEH.

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