Bytedance’s ai phone faces backlash as major chinese apps block doubao’s controls, raising concerns over privacy, fairness, and security. In a statement issued on friday, bytedance said it would prevent the nubia m153 ai phone. Users can activate the assistant through the doubao app, by voice command, or via a dedicated side button.
Zte developed the phone with bytedance The company said it had scaled back the capabilities of doubao, the agentic ai that runs on the device Some users of the new agentic ai phone said on social media that their accounts were frozen after they tried to use doubao’s voice assistant features on major apps
