In the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Review, I described it as the best Android phone. It is fast, beautifully designed, has a great screen, and the photos and videos it captures are the best you can get from a mobile phone. Who wouldn't want such a call?
Next is the Galaxy AI. Samsung lent me a Galaxy S25 Ultra unit and I was lucky enough to give the phone a free trial. My appreciation for this gadget has grown over time. The only part I don't use is… the Galaxy AI. This is why.
I don't want Galaxy ai to write anything for me
Galaxy AI can write all your emails if you wish.
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Galaxy AI includes a tool called Writing Assist that will happily pop up where there is a text input box, rewrite what you write or generate something entirely new. Samsung isn't the only one. When you open Gmail on your Galaxy phone, Google offers to write your email for you before the Writing Assist jumps in.
As I've learned from talking to friends, there seems to be an incredible number of people, such as AI letting them write their messages and emails, responding to clients, applying for jobs, and more. Of course, it's easy and convenient to have AI do it all. Spending a significant amount of emails through email can save you a lot of time.
There are two main reasons why I never use writing assist. For one, you will not lose the ability to communicate with people using your own thoughts and words and think about the words to follow the next words in a sentence. Second, the generated text is always common and mind-boiler plate slops. Certainly, don't you want a world where AI handles all communication? right?
I don't want to summarise anything for me on Galaxy AI
The summary is just a few taps.
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The summary is eager to do as often as possible by the Galaxy AI. Notes, web pages, messages, and more can be summarised with a few taps on the screen. Again, you can see how this is a real-life era for people, especially when it comes to long documents. What's appealing is its speed and convenience.
But that's not for me. Even if it takes longer, I would like to read something appropriately for myself. I don't necessarily trust AI to understand which points to include or exclude. Does it know exactly what is important and what is not? Whether it's a work-related email or a movie review, I want to read everything it has to say.
I hope you're not heading towards a digital world where everything is summed up. There is value in the range of attention that lasts more than a minute, and there is something that actually does to our brains.
I don't want Galaxy AI to draw anything
Drawing Assist is another part of the Galaxy AI.
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Galaxy AI allows you to create AI art using text prompts, convert amateur sketches using AI, and apply lots of AI-powered editing to your photos. Again, this is not something I would like to take advantage of.
What do you think so far?
Well, if there is a great family photo with a tree in an unfortunate position, I might want to erase it. But then, in my opinion, it becomes a fake photo. It wasn't really there. If you're removing the tree, you can whiten your teeth to brighten your eyes, or you can generate the entire image from scratch.
Like AI text, AI images are fairly common and lively. They are more refined than they used to be, but still contain a lot of weirdness and inaccuracies, quite a bit away from what the prompts asked for. And it goes without saying that the amount of energy AI image generation needs.
AI can be helpful
AI has its uses.
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AI can be useful, but it's a slightly different method from the generator AI tools mentioned here. I'm not using them, but the transcription and live translation of text from audio that the Galaxy AI can do is really impressive and I think it's actually worth including on the phone.
But for the rest, I don't know if Samsung needs to shove the Galaxy AI into our faces. And this isn't just Samsung. Everyone is doing this. Modern smartphones are full of AI tools and features. I don't know if they're worth it.
It was frustrating to see Apple declare how it was invested in AI right after ChatGpt and Gemini exploded. My advice to phone makers: like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, we will continue to focus on what makes your phone great, and we will not worry about packing with AI.
