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I've noticed on YouTube I see a lot of adult sexual ads. Things like home cleaning ads that have an unmistakable wood-grain image of fellatio. I've always wond
by craftkiller 2mo ago
I've noticed on YouTube I see a lot of adult sexual ads. Things like home cleaning ads that have an unmistakable wood-grain image of fellatio. I've always wondered "how are these getting past the moderators?". I guess the answer is the obvious one: no one is moderating anything.
- ihuk 2mo agoReported an obvious sexual ad the other day and got a very AI generated response that started with "Dear Username" stating that they reviewed the ad and found nothing wrong with it.
- p0w3n3d 2mo agoThe Dead Internet Theory is real!
- unsnap_biceps 2mo agoBefore I gave up on Facebook entirely, I reported an ad that was an explicit blow job and received a similar response and this was before AI was huge. I really don't think they've ever cared.
- mullingitover 2mo agoFacebook literally trolls you when you report criminal activity, rampant well-documented scams, on their site. They write back and tell you it's not violating their policy and ask if you want to support for your personal problem.
- Spooky23 2mo agoAbsolutely. My uncle got taken by an “investment club” supposedly endorsed by Warren Buffet and run day to day by some real financial person. All communications were via WhatsApp. They started with real stock tips (which were pretty good actually!) and then did a pump and dump. See: https://www.cleuremissionfund.com/ https://www.cleuremissionfund.com/ I received a similar ad (mine was from the shark tank people), reported it and got a message similar to what you described. They were obviously stealing Mark Cuban’s likeness and peddling an obvious scam.
- WorldMaker 2mo agoSection 230 should have never applied to ads. Ads are a commercial relationship. Facebook and YouTube gets paid by these scammers so why would they want to accurately police them? The incentives are broken. Newspapers had to invent all sorts of ways to make sure that they had clear markers between ads, editorial content, and sponsored editorial content. Such things were enforced by lawsuits and a couple of Ad Bureaus. All of those rules should have applied to Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram) and Google (YouTube). Just as it was a sign that you were reading a bad/unreliable tabloid when you couldn't tell what was an ad and what was an article, Meta and Google should have that reputation already as vendors accepting payments for bad ads and whitewashing them as other sorts of content and it is still sometimes surprising to me that they don't.
- inigyou 2mo agoSection 230 doesn't say the advertiser can't go to jail or Facebook doesn't have to tell the police who the advertiser is.
- specproc 2mo agoWho goes to jail for displaying the ad in a public place? If I ran say, a shop, and put CSAM up on my notice board (because I was paid to) that would see me in prison, surely. The lack of accountability here is astounding.
- mullingitover 2mo agoIn my case I wasn't even reporting ads. These are plain old Facebook accounts and groups using very obvious AI-generated slop images of pets for 'adoption' or 'rehoming', so Facebook isn't even making money on this directly. They are participating in the fraud purely out of the malice (more realistically, incompetence spiced with greed) in their own hearts. It's been a very well known problem on Facebook for years[1][2], and the pathetic part is that its so obvious. It really tells you how bad Facebook is with AI, because even I as a regular 1x engineer could wire up some very cheap inference that would lay waste to this fraud pattern as a part-time weekend project. [1] https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2024/05/looking-buy-exotic-pet-scammers-are-hoping-hear-you https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2024/05/looking-buy... [2] https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/807274 https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/807274
- FireBeyond 2mo agoMy example was a comment that said "only a shame more [hard r n word]s didn't die. we need to get this place cleaned up" and told that was not in violation of community standards.
- UltraSane 2mo agoThe AI is a gooner
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- Telaneo 2mo agoThere have been Youtube ads that are undeniable scams for years, so it's no surprise it's compleatly unmoderated.
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- EmbarrassedHelp 2mo agoThe other answer is that the people creating these ads have the resources to continuously try and bypass filters/moderation.
- zakki 2mo agoIf there is filters/moderation.
- SwellJoe 2mo agoThere are, but only for using IP of large corporations. If you put 12 seconds of a major label song in your video review of an album, that video belongs to the major label now.
- gowld 2mo agoIt's a lot easier to automatically detect a match to 1 specific thing than detect a match to a completely novel thing that offends sensibilities in a similar way to other things.
- UltraSane 2mo agoIt is really interesting how YouTube can detect short snippets of movies and songs but there are many full audiobooks illegally uploaded for years.
- joshspankit 2mo agoMovie and music studios are far more litigious
- ben_w 2mo agoThere are basically always filters of some kind, though not necessarily the ones we want. The bigger the target that filter represents, the more effort is spent breaking it.
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- ryanjshaw 2mo agoGoogle Play Store showed my child an ad of a bloody body on a bed for a murder mystery game. The game was rated 18+ and the account had my daughter’s correct single digit age. I reported the ad and a week later it was still there. I switched to Apple.
- uncletammy 2mo agoHow did that work out for you? Safer? What was the experience switching, for you and for your kid?
- themaninthedark 2mo agoListen, we need you to verify your identity in order for us to not serve these ads to your kids. It's very important that you do this.
- Spooky23 2mo agoYet you can’t run Linux on a Chromebook with a minor child user.
- stephenbez 2mo agoWhat do you mean? You can use Linux on a Chromebook just fine if the user is an adult but if the user is a child there is some Chromebook restriction?
- smugma 2mo agoUnfortunately, I’ve seen MA ads for kids games on iPhone as well. Possibly not as bad but not great. It seems to be better than it was two years ago.
- malshe 2mo agoI just don't get their algorithm. I used to show YT videos to my students but I stopped that totally because of this kind of crap.
- karakoram 2mo agoThe worst ads are the shady games with all sorts of sexual references. They don't end no matter how many times you report it, block the ads or select the "less gaming ads" option.
- nitwit005 2mo agoThe more surprising thing with YouTube is how much obvious copyright infringement is in ads. The whole platform seems oriented around copyright enforcement, but ads seem to get a pass.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhat copyright infringement did you see in an ad?
- nitwit005 2mo agoAnime characters they clearly haven't paid for the rights to use seem popular (anime studios typically announce their partnerships). Also not a copyright violation, but using Elon Musk's likeness without permission for investment scams seems to be a big thing.
- jlarocco 2mo agoIs it surprising? Google and Facebook can barely police the content their human users post.
- gs17 2mo agoThat seems to be by choice, not because it's inherently difficult at scale. It's not like we see them take things down when you report them, you'll get multiple reviews of "this obvious scam doesn't violate our rules".
- duxup 2mo agoMan I got a “clothing brand” last night on YouTube of a VERY young girl wearing… not much, and it didn’t fit well in all the wrong / revealing places… Reported the add but damn YouTube, the freaky fake medical ads are bad enough.
- 12_throw_away 2mo agoBut that can't be true! From the article (with a probably irrelevant fact added by me): "Sexual exploitation is horrific, and we work aggressively to keep it off our platform" a Meta [which in the past 2 years has laid off and disbanded all teams responsible for this] spokesperson says.
- UltraSane 2mo agoFirefox and uBlock Origin will prevent you seeing any ads. I didn't even want to use it until the adds got so repetitive.
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- nticompass 2mo agoI've noticed this with obvious scam ads on the YouTube app or even Google search results. I've determined that (much like Twitter/X) the "verification" (or "moderation") is simply just "did they [the advertiser] pay us?"
- Flere-Imsaho 2mo agoYou guys see ads on YouTube? Brave browser is a thing by the way.
- etc-hosts 2mo agoEvery time I got an ad for Falung Gong or Epoch Times related properties or that annoying Epoch Times Russian-American ( Roman in this article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/technology/epoch-times-youtube.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/technology/epoch-times-yo... ) I used to screenshot it and email it individually to every single Google Board member I could find. I haven't seen any Epoch Times ads in Youtube for a while... maybe it worked !