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“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens (arstechnica.com)
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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

People are reading into this way too hard. This seems like an ad attack which is nothing new on Facebook. As you can target by user preference using: "oh this person from your feed but now naked" to bait a click is classic personalized ad attack. Facebook ads platform needs to be abolished altogether - it's incredibly unsafe.

Very deceiving article title by arstechnica, disappointing.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nothing of what you write absolves meta of the prime responsibility for this happening. They provided the platform where they not only let this happen but actively encourage it (and often pay for it).

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I never said it did

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah. They don't get the benefit of the doubt when it's likely that these ads have been reported a lot and still ran as long as they did. Continuing to run ads like this when you get complaints is more than suspect.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Possibly but you need the context of how actually bad facebook ads moderation is. We already seen almost a billion euro fines for this and it's just the tip of the iceberg. I work adjecent to scam prevention and facebook ads are notorious for scams and Meya is intentionally loose with moderation because ads make shit ton of money and scammer's dollars are just as good as any.

So realistically it Meta benefiting from scams rather than pushing some agenda through ads which is still incredibly bad if not worse.