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DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
- dtagames 7d agohttps://archive.ph/UKVhg https://archive.ph/UKVhg
- archerx 7d agoThere is a special place in hell waiting for these people and everyone who helps enable their greed and the misery they produce. I bet their system also finds who is likeliest to win and finds a reason to ban them like casinos have been doing.
- lokar 7d agoThey don’t ban them, they limit them to tiny bets. There is a market for established non-winning accounts you can sell to sharps.
- ivorbuk 7d agoOf course it does! Why pay all those machine learning/data employee salaries? In 2016 I joined an online casino (as a PM) and was confronted by the biggest machine learning and real-time data operation I had ever seen at the time. All about pushing wagering bonuses, measured by deposits. At the time we still called this class of user "high value". Not allowed to do that anymore... Gives the game away!
- fullshark 7d agoI believe a temperance movement is on the horizon. The fact that we've turned smartphones into vice dispensers (and surveillance devices but that's another topic) is one of the greatest failures of western society.
- fakedang 7d agoIt's telling when the largest maker of these devices themselves put societal controls in place to curb the excesses of this device - yet they're failing miserably too. Or are they? Perhaps the result is also what they want internally.
- jmathai 6d agoI don’t think they care enough to limit the use of their own products to trust them to help solve the problem.
- fakedang 6d agoI was talking about the Chinese.
- dtagames 6d agoWhat social controls? Apple and Google get a cut of all the business that runs through their apps, including gambling apps. This has been the subject of numerous lawsuits. You don't think the Play Store or the App Store are just giving out those apps and not making money from it, do you? The app platforms are not only complicitous, they're enabling gambling by allowing these apps at all. It would be very simple to take them all away with TOS that banned gambling apps. What platform has the ethics to do that? None.
- fakedang 6d agoI was talking about the Chinese.
- kraussvonespy 7d agoThe gaming apps for many people are roughly equivalent to giving an opiate addict an app that dispenses heroin whenever they press a button.
- dehrmann 7d agoNot sure if it was intentional, but saying "uses AI" in the headline makes it sound like this is a modern thing, but the techniques here are closer to the linear regression side of AI than the trasnformer side. The headline could have been "DraftKings Targets Problem Gamblers." It would have put the outrage where it should be.
- tqi 7d agoI don't think the NYT cares where the outrage is directed as long as they get their clicks
- tracerbulletx 7d agoNYT Uses A.I To Target the Type of Outrage Readers Likeliest to Click!
- bathtub365 7d agoShould outrage not be directed at a gambling site that targets its most vulnerable users?
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- wavemode 7d agoWhen I was doing arbitrage and bonus farming, the process often involved wagering both sides of a bet on different sportsbooks. Result being that my DraftKings account was eventually down thousands of dollars over its lifetime. So of course... they emailed me offering access to a VIP bonus program! To get in I just needed to keep betting as much as possible. Such nice people.