Technology

Pff. Kid probably has 8 years of experience using YouTube

if the child can read setting something like an ad campaing of can be pretty straigtforward.

A few years ago i found out that my reddit accound had some free credit and was thinking about using it for something silly and it was very very easy. (seems like companies like getting money for ads) The free credit was not much so they definetly wanted me to spend more

Dave said that after the boy complained about views, he set up a roughly $20 promotion and talked through the steps aloud: set a budget, select who sees the ads, hit run. The boy then created his own campaigns, and Dave said his son did not understand the $20 as a limit. “The credit card, it just says approved every single time,”

YT has a simplified interface to promote videos. It's not as complicated as a regular Google ad campaign setup

Something tells me you didn't read the article, because this is explained in the article.

Something should also tell you that there's a direct incentive for companies to make it as easy as possible to spend money on their services.

With LLMs a 9 year old could manage. It's made accessible anything to anyone. Like vibe coding to untrained programmers