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Google seems to have pushed a massive amount of ai-generated 4 and 5 star reviews to their new "Android Developer Verifier" app (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by Redjard@reddthat.com to c/android@lemmy.world

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This app is set to stop people from installing apks or using stores and apps not accepted by google ("verification" requires payment of course). The play store listing does not have images, a proper description, and the app cannot be opened.

Screenshots from the play app because google did something custom for this playstore listing which crashes Aurora. It's fixed in the latest fdroid release, but I noticed that too late, so most screenshots are from googles shitty app.

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[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

I still think this AI revolution is being shoved down our throats instead of being an organic revolution revolution. The funny thing is I did and do use AI features. I just refuse to download or activate any new bs ai permissions. Because I refuse to do that I have lost functionality in my android Device. Now I can't tell my phone to schedule something on the calendar. That feature used to be native with the phone now it's locked behind the AI app. I still use image search a lot, I bet that will be gone soon.

Anyway, this is Google trying to use their idiotic AI to manipulate us again. Just like taking away features to download the AI app, it's all about control now, not utility, not customer service.