Samsung Generative Edit AI has proven to be quite useful for a lot of people and I am sure it has been a major factor for purchasing decisions for many customers. However, something dastardly has happened since the last update. When you were once able to remove a hand from the face or other closeup edits involving people WHILST Processing ON DEVICE setting enabled, you can NO LONGER DO that. You can still Gen AI inanimate objects etc whilst PROCESSING ON DEVICE but surprise surprise if there is any editing on people Samsung wants those images.

Several witnesses confirm they were able to do this before so the recent change is a huge disappointment in privacy and features of the phone.

Error message that appears when you try to edit a photo with a person or skin: "Can't generate with this content.".

Tested in S25U

Why Did They Do This?

For several reasons:

1. Marketing and luring customers to buy the phone based on a certain feature and allow the customer to become dependent on a feature by allowing Process ON device during Gen AI.
2. Anti-Privacy, they want to take your data for monitoring, selling etc.
3. AI Training, they want more data to train their AI
4. lock away the feature behind a future Galaxy AI subscription. So end of this year they will disable the feature unless you pay

What Can Be Done?

1. Someone needs to determine from the Terms & Conditions if they are allowed to do this, can use ChatGPT.
2. Evidence accumulation. Standard photo with say hand over face - see if a phone reset with latest patch disables this feature or try with a phone with the out of the box patch (December). We need evidence, photos and video proof, please post here.
3. Report this thread or your own explanation to all major Android tech websites.
4. Create videos and make people aware of what Samsung is doing in the hope their will revert their strategy.