Snapchat’s “My Selfie” by default reserves the right to use your likeness in ads.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 day ago

    They’re still on my shit list for broadcasting my GPS location to my contact list which lead to stalking and violence. Wouldn’t trust them with anything even vaguely considered personal information.

  • @[email protected]English
    39•1 day ago

    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.

    Option? More like a chance to opt out. Option means users get to choose to opt in.

    This type of thing shouldn’t be legal. I just learned of LinkedIn doing the same thing with user content and an “opt out” setting, and I immediately toggled it off. FFS someone regulate these idiots

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 day ago

      “We see you had it toggled on for 16 seconds when you first opened the app, so that still counts. Also we can legally kill you if we want.”

  • @[email protected]English
    19•1 day ago

    Wait, I never used snapchat, so I could be totally off base, but don’t Snapchat messages get automatically deleted? Isn’t that the whole point? Haven’t they already been caught deceiving users into thinking their deleted photos are actually gone? This just seems so gross.

    • DettweilerEnglish
      16•1 day ago

      Nothing is truly deleted. You will still get sent “memories” of things you sent/shared in the past.

    • BlackLaZoR
      12•1 day ago

      don’t Snapchat messages get automatically deleted?

      Haven’t they already been caught deceiving users into thinking their deleted photos are actually gone?

      Welcome to the modern corporate business models

    • dittyEnglish
      5•1 day ago

      I also couldn’t find it when I just scoured the app’s settings on my phone. I haven’t setup the “My selfie” feature though so that may be why