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Surely this tool will be used responsibly and not lead to a renaissance in misleading ads, phishing scams, and malvertising. I trust Meta to have put in the pro
by sickofparadox 3y ago
Surely this tool will be used responsibly and not lead to a renaissance in misleading ads, phishing scams, and malvertising. I trust Meta to have put in the proper safeguards to make this tool simply a net benefit for online users.
- cooper_ganglia 3y agoI think the technology behind all of this is so cool and I love it, but it's difficult not to assume that all of this will ultimately result in the crashing and burning of modern civilization.
- wccrawford 3y agoIt's certainly going to result in wide-sweeping changes, one way or the other.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoI’ve noticed recently a flood of weird ads on YouTube. I realized that automated western-sounding voice overs allow companies, I assume from China, to make up some bullshit ad using rhetoric similar to “one weird trick” and “doctors hate him!” to hook people in to sell some random cheap device. The cost of a full video ad (using stock video) and a custom voice over is so low we are being flooded with absolute nonsense ads. They literally don’t make sense but they must catch suckers. It’s gonna be an issue when these things are more logically coherent and visually mature.
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- dylan604 3y agodid you forget the /s?
- sputr 3y agoWas not needed :)
- dylan604 3y agoyou never know how many FB sycophants are out there though
- sickofparadox 3y agoI assure you that I am, in fact, not a fan of the fact the brightest minds in the past 20 years have been dedicated to developing and selling more efficiently targeted ads.
- hightrix 3y agoI hate to imagine what kind of actual societal progress we could have made had these brilliant minds been working on nearly anything else. So much wasted potential just to serve an ad that gets ignored a tiny bit faster.
- ACow_Adonis 3y agowell, the brightest minds as self-described by the people doing it. And the people doing it self select for showing the ability to work in a disingenuous self-advocating marketing field, so you might expect them to talk themselves up. i don't think the actual brightest mind could stand working in the field for more than about 5 seconds
- sickofparadox 3y agoYou can argue that they aren't the top of the pyramid and I'd give you that, in exchange for the admission that the people working for FAANG, MANA, or whatever, are certainly a cohort of smart people who's skills could have gone to basically anything else and humanity would have benefited for it.
- dwaltrip 3y ago
- an_aparallel 3y agoi think the username is a pretty good guage of what's going on :)
- zeruch 3y agoYour delivery is beyond deadpan to a kind of exhumed-pan I find impressive. Superior snark sir.
- antifa 3y agoFortune favors the bold.
- jimbob45 3y agoPretty easy to block malevolence. Just permaban advertisers that misuse the tools. It's not like you'll struggle to collect evidence on their misdeeds.
- kjs3 3y agoThey don't do that now[1], why would they do it in the future? There's literally no incentive for them to do it. It's obviously bad for business, since the 'customer' isn't the user, it's the advertiser. [1] such as https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/almost-60-percent-of-malicious-ads-come-from-three-ad-providers/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/almost-60-per...
- naruhodo 3y agoI would love to see a deepfake video of Zuck saying the exact opposite of this. You know that would be the truth.