In my Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely evaluation, I described it as one of the best Android cellphone round. It is quick, it is superbly designed, it has a unbelievable display screen, and the pictures and movies it captures are among the greatest you will get from a cell phone. Who would not desire a cellphone like that?
Then there’s Galaxy AI. As Samsung loaned me a Galaxy S25 Extremely unit, I have been fortunate sufficient to strive the cellphone out free of charge, and my appreciation for this gadget has solely grown over time. The one half I do not make the most of is … Galaxy AI. Here is why.
I do not need Galaxy AI to put in writing something for me
Galaxy AI can write all of your emails, in order for you.
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Galaxy AI features a software referred to as Writing Help that may fortunately pop up anyplace there is a textual content enter field, and both rewrite what you have written, or generate one thing totally new. This is not simply Samsung, both: Open Gmail on a Galaxy cellphone and Google will provide to put in writing your e mail for you earlier than Writing Help has had an opportunity to leap in.
As I’ve realized from chatting with pals, there appears to be an alarming variety of folks now keen to let AI write their messages and emails for them—to reply to shoppers, to use for jobs, and so forth. In fact it is simple and handy to get AI to do the whole lot, and for those who spend a considerable quantity of your day emailing, it can save you a major period of time.
There are two primary the reason why I will by no means use Writing Help: One, I wish to talk with folks utilizing my very own ideas and phrases, and never lose the flexibility to consider which phrase ought to observe the following in a sentence. Two, the textual content produced is invariably generic, unfeeling, boilerplate slop. Absolutely we do not desire a world the place AI is dealing with all our communications? Proper?
I do not need Galaxy AI to summarize something for me
Summaries are only some faucets away.
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Summaries are one thing else that Galaxy AI is eager to do as typically as potential: Notes, webpages, messages, and extra can all be summarized with a few faucets on the display screen. Once more, I can see how this can be a actual timesaver for folks, particularly relating to longer paperwork, and it is the velocity and comfort that makes it interesting.
It is not for me, although. Even when it takes longer, I would prefer to learn one thing correctly myself. I do not essentially belief AI to grasp which factors to incorporate and which to depart out—how precisely does it know what’s essential and what is not? Whether or not it is a work-related e mail or a movie evaluation, I wish to learn the whole lot it is acquired to say.
I hope we’re not heading towards a digital world the place the whole lot is summarized. There’s worth in an consideration span that may final past a minute, and in truly giving our brains one thing to do.
I do not need Galaxy AI to attract something for me
Drawing Help is one other a part of Galaxy AI.
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With Galaxy AI, you possibly can create AI artwork utilizing a textual content immediate, you need to use AI to transform your novice sketches, and you’ll apply a bunch of AI-powered edits to your pictures. Once more, this is not one thing I’ve any need to utilize, not least as a result of I can not actually consider any use circumstances for it.
What do you assume up to now?
Okay, possibly if there’s an incredible household picture that has a tree in an unlucky place, I’d probably wish to erase it. However then, in my thoughts, it turns into a faux picture—it isn’t what was truly there. When you’re eradicating a tree you may as nicely whiten tooth and brighten eyes, and even simply generate the complete picture from scratch.
Like AI textual content, AI photographs are fairly generic and lifeless. They’re extra polished than they as soon as have been, however they nonetheless comprise loads of oddities and inaccuracies, and are sometimes fairly a means away from what the immediate requested for. And that is to not point out the quantity of power AI picture era wants.
Typically, AI will be helpful
AI does have its makes use of.
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There are occasions when AI will be useful, although it is in barely alternative ways to the generative AI instruments I’ve talked about right here. I’ve not made use of them, however the voice-to-text transcriptions and stay translations that Galaxy AI can do are genuinely spectacular, and I believe they’re truly value together with on a cellphone—even when they are not excellent.
For the remainder, although, I am unsure Samsung must push Galaxy AI into our faces fairly this a lot. And this is not simply Samsung: Everyone seems to be doing this. Modern-day smartphones are brimming with AI instruments and options. I am simply unsure they’re worthwhile.
It was irritating to see Apple declare simply how invested it was in AI, proper after ChatGPT and Gemini exploded, solely to need to delay large components of Apple Intelligence as a result of they weren’t prepared. My recommendation to cellphone makers: maintain specializing in what makes telephones nice—just like the Galaxy S25 Extremely does—and fear much less about packing in much more AI.
