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This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI
by Phelinofist 3y ago
This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it.
Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug
- hombre_fatal 3y agoAmazing. That’s a feature you’d expect at the top of an HN brainstorm for comically bad, far fetched phone ideas.
- uo21tp5hoyg 3y agosure, but only because HN is mostly men working in tech. these types of features are far more popular among women. (not all women of course)
- iamacyborg 3y agoCitation needed
- uo21tp5hoyg 3y agoI can't provide a direct citation but I worked on image detection shopping for Kakao[1] and can say from personal observation that at least in Korea these features are far more popular (and ridiculously profitable) among women. According to Forbes women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing decisions in the US[2] so I can't imagine it's that rare there either, but I could be wrong and this could be an entirely eastern thing but given Huawei is a Chinese company I would bet it's a very popular feature for the phone. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakao 2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescontentmarketing/2019/05/13/20-facts-and-figures-to-know-when-marketing-to-women/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescontentmarketing/2019/05/...
- witchesindublin 3y agoBut South Korea is a much more gender-divided country where women go shopping and men go shooting.
- NavinF 3y agoI think you just described a lot of other countries such as America and Canada.
- uo21tp5hoyg 3y agoHence the inclusion of the statistics for the United States also.
- witchesindublin 3y ago[dead]
- fomine3 3y agoRegardless is it true or false, so what? GP indicated that the feature is useful at least in some markets.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't post this sort of thing here. Nationalistic and gender generalizations turn into flamewars and we're trying to avoid that on this site. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- _yb2s 3y agoThe next version: When you touch an item in a photo you automatically buy it. There is supposedly a way to see that this is happening and cancel it, but that part of the interface isn't intuitive and attempts to cancel more often result in additional purchases. This cannot be turned off, and the new phone can't be used in the first place until you set up credit card billing. It also seems to trigger "automatically" and "by accident" very frequently.
- PebblesRox 3y agoIt's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone, which was the only way I could see to enforce that he couldn't do it again, but then someone made a payment and ended up saving the payment method again.) I feel like it's only a matter of time before it happens again; at least the address is correct now so we'd actually receive the item if we were unable to cancel/refund.
- nine_k 3y agoStop. Do you mean that the fridge has Google Photos app running? Or do you mean that your phone is not locked when given to the enterprising toddler in question?
- PebblesRox 3y agoSorry for the confusion, the fridge was just part of the photo he was looking at. We gave him the phone to look at photos, thinking he couldn’t make too much trouble with that app. But while looking at a photo of himself with ketchup, he managed to complete the ordering process for ordering a photo canvas - a feature of the photos app I had always ignored until I saw the email that the order had shipped.
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- readyplayernull 3y agoShhh, the Windows 11 team might hear you.
- ozfive 3y agoLoud and clear!
- oefrha 3y agoI’ve witnessed a good number of online interactions that went like “where do I buy your blouse/dress”, “I don’t recall, just use <app>’s AI feature to recognize it”. I’ve witnessed it once or twice in meatspace as well. So it’s absolutely a thing that real people find useful, especially among women who are into clothes shopping.
- Neekerer 3y agoTaobao's image search is excellent. I haven't had a need to use a western service but Taobao can find just about anything via a picture search.
- langsoul-com 3y agoDoesn't that solve the problem of where can I buy this? Similar to social media containing links to purchase advertised wares. Sounds pretty neat if it's accurate.
- wraptile 3y agoGoogle lense can do that! I actually shop a lot through various apps with reverse image search (in SEA both Lazada and Shopee support this) and the results are alright at best but it can be a major time saver. It's often the only way to find the thing you're looking for as every e-commerce platform seems to be gamed to death these days.
- awestroke 3y agoThe solution is to not "buy this"
- shostack 3y agoAka "every time you touch something registered as two fingers, that gets phoned home to Huawei and likely incorporated into an ad signals database.
- danpalmer 3y agoAd signals? More like social credit profile.
- Fnoord 3y agoSounds like you got some nice spyware for the Chinese government.
- somedude895 3y agoDoes it create affiliate links? That'd be genius and absolutely pathetic at the same time. Either way I wouldn't be surprised.
- dhosek 3y agoAt some point, the reverse image search on Google started doing this, which was really annoying. Although I kind of would like it to see if I can find a replacement for a pendant lamp that I accidentally broke one of the glass cylinders that surround the light bulbs on, but I can’t find any photos of the non-broken light fixture.
- koolba 3y agoWhat did it think the squiggly lines were and what did it try to sell you? Did it think they’re chromosomes and try to sell DNA testing services?
- mgbmtl 3y agoAndroid (on my Pixel6) does this in a more subtle way, which I think is Ok: Swipe bottom to up, to show the list of open apps, it will detect the images on the app preview. Click on an image, and there is a "shopping" option (part of Google lenses).
- xnx 3y agoI like Android, but I would never ever recommend anyone buy anything but Google Pixel phones because of nonsense like this.