Sooooo, I actually use the phone AI. It quite literally changed my work life for the better.

I have a Samsung Fold 5 that got the AI crap installed on my phone. I never used it and was in the same camp as you guys about how worthless it is.

One day for shits and giggles, I decided to try the new AI voice recorder thing in one of my meetings because I struggle with ADHD and I figured I can go back and listen to the things my mind tuned out.

This thing can effectively transcribe an 1 hour meeting and even distinguish between different speakers. My mind was blown. Then it gave me a summary of the meeting and even gave me action items.

It’s not for everyone but because of this AI crap, it helps me cope with my ADHD.

I would love it, if AI was only used for useful things, like translation, spelling correction, sorting my photos, Plant/Object ID, actual useful SST, doing Google’s old job of actually finding the information I want in the sea of SEO garbage or badly written product descriptions.

But no, I already know it’ll primarily be used to spy on you better while draining your battery. At least with all the past spying you knew the data processing isn’t THAT advanced. But with AI it’ll be like having a literal spy following you around at all times.

And from the state of existing models that are small enough to run on a phone, it’ll still be years until they are actually reliable enough to be useful.

I used to only buy Samsung phones, I now refuse to until they get rid of the ai crap. I want a cool phone with good battery-life, a wicked updated camera that takes real pictures and runs fast.

AI is annoying. I don’t need my phone making decisions on it’s own. I don’t want some lame ass company changing how I have my devices set up. I changed to Linux because Micro$oft could not keep it’s hands off my settings. It’s called “artificial” for a reason, it’s not actually intelligent.