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I don’t think ad placement for children should be the primary concern. Unless I’m misunderstanding the current state of the technology, it’s possible today wit
by twoodfin 2y ago
I don’t think ad placement for children should be the primary concern.
Unless I’m misunderstanding the current state of the technology, it’s possible today with a little effort to put my biometrics in a feedback loop with (say) GPT-4o, and use those measurements to rapidly produce and refine an increasingly horrifying series of images, personalized to my lizard brain reactions.
That’s gross, but the same technique could be applied more subtly. Imagine the worst things people suspect about TikTok’s algorithm, but with biometric feedback on its individual effectiveness.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoBut to what end, if not to sell influence over the user to someone who would manipulate them?
- insane_dreamer 2y ago> I don’t think ad placement for children should be the primary concern. But eventually it all devolves to this (and I include teens < 18 as children here). Remember that FB started out as a way to connect with your college buddies.
- getwiththeprog 2y agoFB started out as a way to rate hot college girls! https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/before-facebook-zuckerberg-created-a-girl-rating-site-facemash https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/before-facebook-zuckerberg...
- autoexec 2y agoPushing ads at children is a major concern because children have zero defenses against the kind of sophisticated manipulation advertisers use against them. More than just ads though, collecting data on children is dangerous as well. We really don't need corporations starting a dossier on children and placing them into buckets at such an early age. It's bad enough we hand school children chromebooks so that Google can track their test scores, growth, and intelligence