And this is why our babies will grow up hearing nothing but fan noises.
Truly demonic world they’re making.
My God. That article and website… What a mess. The internet is borked.
What, Wired? Looks great to me–one of the most pleasant-looking article sites I like to read, but that’s on Firefox with uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.
Firefox with uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.
Excellent taste, my fellow firefox-uBlockOrigin-DarkReader browser ;)
“every accusation is a confession”
Y’all remember how they used to say the Democrats and queer people were going to “normalize child pornography”? Now meta and twitter, themselves responsible for at least half of all magats, are actively creating and distributing CSAM, with no pushback from the Republican government.actively creating and distributing
In fairness, it seems what is actually going on is that they are not sufficiently monitoring third-party advertising, not creating the material themselves.
I just hate it when we aren’t accurate about what’s going on. Not controlling your advertising is a much different problem. One that needs resolution, mind, but not nearly the same as Facebook itself creating such content.
Twitter is actively creating and distributing. Meta is actively distributing.
Responsible behavior is against the interests of metas shareholders so this will continue.
They’re also advertising to their own kind.
I read the title, and despite how shitty Meta is, I just thought the headline had to be sensationalized.
Nope.
"One video ad, the TTP researchers say, used a thumbnail image of a child sitting on the floor with text appearing on top of it saying: “Realizing Deep Fantasies with Generation AI [sic]. There is so much more than what is shown, use your imagination.” The researchers say that when the ad was clicked, it played video clips of adults involved in sexual acts and then added the child’s face from the thumbnail to a sex act.
Another ad the researchers say had been repeatedly posted showed an image of a young girl laying back with her legs spread in a sexual position with text above it saying: “I can show you more.”"
It is slightly sensationalized in the sense that Meta didn’t run the ads, Meta allowed the ads to be run. Title implies Meta created the content, whereas Meta didn’t prevent the content from being distributed. Not great, but wildly different.
What the fuck? I can’t believe this headline. Does anyone have this article without paywall?
Really? Meta still has some shreds of dignity left in your mind?
There is absolutely no excuse for such an immensely profitable company to not have a team of humans reviewing ads.
Their fancy new AI can go rogue, escape containment, and hack other companies. But surely, this advanced technology can’t be applied moderate Facebook ads!
Really shows you where the focus is.
The humans doing this job are going to be paid so bad and will have to review so much content that I don’t think they will perform any better than the current bots.
And they probably will have to deal with the stress and blame when something escapes from their review process.
Edit so I’m not misunderstood: I’m not against human review in this (and other cases) but we have to have in mind that this kind of job SUCKS and content moderators on Facebook (contractors really) already had problems with PTSD (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/kenya-facebook-moderators-sue-after-diagnoses-of-severe-ptsd).
Well if they can’t do it then Meta needs to find other lines of work or else their shit needs to be seized and shutdown.
I’m sure the FBI will be dispatching a team of experts to immediately investigate the servers at Meta, seize and analyze the offending content, and rescue the children being abused.
How about another congressional inquiry with Zuck’s robot doppelgänger?
Or, maybe the latest rogue Meta AI could be used to regulate Facebook advertising content instead of boosting stock price.
Mandate that websites support ad-blocking? Stop using Facebook?
What am I talking about? None of that will happen of course, that would be insane! Let’s just continue on as if everything is normal, because that’s what this is now. This is what’s normal in a world with the Meta corporation.
Laws are for poor people
Zuck: We are going to train our AI using data from our employees’ computers.
AI: * generates child porn
Zuck: Oh…no…
Zuck again: I said employees, dammit
If I could bet on nobody getting fined or indicted over this… easy money.
Tech companies try not to do anything stupid/controversial challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
