{"id":158351,"date":"2025-06-04T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158351\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:05:10","slug":"samsung-phones-are-getting-a-weird-ai-shopping-platform-nobody-asked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158351\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung phones are getting a weird AI shopping platform nobody asked for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glance AI, a brand owned by mobile advertising company InMobi, has announced a partnership with the Samsung Galaxy Store<\/a> to roll out its e-commerce platform to Galaxy phones in the US. The company\u2019s app centers around what it calls \u201ca Generative AI shopping platform,\u201d which is a serious contender for the most cursed phrase I\u2019ve read today. The \u201cexperience\u201d comprises both a standalone app and a lock screen component to try and sell you clothes. Crucially, the whole thing is \u201cfully opt-in,\u201d which, thank Christ. But even if you opt out \u2014 which you absolutely should! \u2014 this feels like a sign of things to come as advertisers try to leverage AI to sell us more stuff. Buckle up.<\/p>\n

You may remember InMobi as the company ruining Motorola\u2019s otherwise decent budget phones<\/a> with a bunch of e-commerce nonsense. The version of this that Galaxy owners might see centers on a feature that uses gen AI and a photo of you to create images of you wearing different outfits, with new \u201clooks\u201d available every day. Unsurprisingly, you can buy the clothes with a tap. This can all happen on your lock screen, and for some reason you can save these AI generated creations as lock screen wallpapers. I will not be doing this.<\/p>\n

Glance AI\u2019s lock screen features appear to vary by region; in India, where InMobi was founded, Glance lock screens show ads<\/a> in addition to things like news updates and sports scores. The implementation on Samsung phones doesn\u2019t seem to include ads, mercifully, at least for now. I don\u2019t know about you but I will absolutely throw my phone into the sea the first time I see an ad on my lock screen, so I hope this never comes to pass.<\/p>\n

Glance AI is rolling out to Samsung Galaxy S22, S23, S24, and S25-series phones starting today, and should reach \u201ca full 100% scale\u201d in the next 30 days. Presumably it\u2019ll arrive as an optional download in the Galaxy Store when that happens, though I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it comes with a push notification encouraging users to go download it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glance AI, a brand owned by mobile advertising company InMobi, has announced a partnership with the Samsung Galaxy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,547,12,542,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-158351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626895901580581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}