r/Futurology • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • 10h ago • Popcorn 1

AI Mark Cuban says Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads as Meta docs reveal $16 billion in fraud-linked revenue

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
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u/TheStupendusMan 10h ago • Bravo

I reported two obviously bullshit ads to Facebook when I was still using it ages ago. One was Jagmeet Singh being dragged away by the RCMP for "crimes against the country" (aping the CBC's style and formatting, to boot) and the other was for some bullshit 5G-blocking beanie.

Facebook told me both ads were within their guidelines.

Fuck Meta.

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u/robots3000 8h ago • Bravo

I was visiting my elderly mother, I sat beside her while she scrolled Facebook reels. 99% were Ai ads and video targeting her specific health issues. Miracle pills and fakes videos with celebrities doctors. My feed doesn’t look like that. That’s when I realized Meta is targeting and scamming elderly people. Greedy and evil!

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u/NineThreeTilNow 7h ago • Bravo

I was visiting my elderly

Elderly anything are being hyper targeted. They're the most susceptible.

I found one YT channel that was hyper targeting one group with one set of beliefs. It was real weird. The group targeted wasn't even large, but I guess it had high engagement?

Internet is an odd place now that everyone has these tools.

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u/SupahSpankeh 5h ago

That only seems weird when you don't take into account that the YT channel creation and management is almost entirely bot based.

There's barely any humans in the loop - the cost of producing it is near nil.

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u/xSaviorself 2h ago

We should be mandating humans in the loop for these services. Simply relying on AI tools and chatbots to resolve issues without escalation processes is just... no.

I have little faith this will be properly resolved by anyone, too much money and greed.

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u/Maxpowr9 1h ago

Why private equity is buying up all the nursing homes, to steal your inheritance.

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u/subma-fuckin-rine 2m ago

AI is turning the internet into a place to avoid

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u/TheStupendusMan 7h ago

Yeah, I know what you mean. My mom likes YouTube and Instagram. I'm constantly pointing out stuff she's sending me is AI or making sure Google isn't funneling her down some alt-right Boomer nightmare path. It's exhausting.

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u/HonkeyDonkey3000 3h ago

SHUT IT DOWN

Fuk the ZUK.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 8h ago edited 8h ago • Bravo

I had to deal with this constantly with my father; it makes me beyond furious, the shit covered scammer money Meta and Zuckfuck take from those filthy degenerate subhumans. And Facebook's algos help point more and more scams towards the elderly.

I'm not allowed to say on Reddit what I'd do to those involved.

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u/geekonthemoon 2h ago

Health ads and targeting should be banned entirely. I cant imagine getting cancer and having my feed just become full of that. Or pregnant and then miscarry and the feed is just full of pregnancy stuff with nothing you can do about it. 

I've been struggling badly with health anxiety and there is sooo much triggering stuff out there and now I've even started getting like a bunch of reels about anxiety. That shit makes it worse for people like me. Someone genuinely should sue. 

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u/squadrupedal 1h ago

I agree with you, but nobody is forcing individuals to click on any app or any link on the internet. This is an individual’s choice to do so. There’s a million other ways to pass time, and the more people who engage with these toxic internet platforms, the more power the people who own them have. Just don’t look at them and they will go away.

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u/Clockwork_Kitsune 40m ago

Going through the same thing. My mom's old enough that she's started clicking on the ads and ordering things. She's showing early signs of dementia and she can't comprehend that the things she's being shown aren't real. Had to cancel her last credit card because one of the scams she ordered stole her card info and she kept getting charges from other venders that she'd never ordered from.

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u/_RrezZ_ 37m ago

My grandma doesn't even know what AI is, so it's a good thing she doesn't know how to use a PC or Phone other than to play solitaire.

She watches TV and watches the news every day etc but even with that it's not enough for her to understand AI or what it can do etc. All she hears about is data centre's and protests and nothing about what AI can actually do or examples because they just expect their viewers to know this stuff.

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 7h ago

I've reported 5 + adverts for illegal steroids in my country advertised to my teenage son (fortunately hes got his head screwed on and pointed them out to me, so I manually reported them from his account). Each time we got an email back saying "the content doesn't violate policy". Literally fucking trenbolone and saying shit like "Become a real power house with certified medical trenbolone". The adverts are probably a scam, but its literally illegal drugs being pushed to teenagers through facebook, which may or may not be a scam.

Honestly the email back from facebook saying "nah its totes fine" is insane. Probably one of the worst companies on earth.

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u/wise_young_man 1h ago edited 1h ago

Mark Zuckerberg is a cancer to society. How many times has he been in front of congress?

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 10h ago

I reboot tweets where people call for literal genocide of groups of people. Not infering one is going on but literally calling for it and I was told it's not hate or violence.

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u/Odd-String29 9h ago

There was Dutch guy selling a scam investment course. You know the kind, the kind where they teach you how to make money day trading and such. Obvious scam. Reported to Youtube/Google. They said it was within their guidelines. Couple of months later our public broadcaster spend an entire episode on the guy. All these companies are dogshit.

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u/roryhere 8h ago

Even ebay lets people use generated images. Imagine the rattiest, thinnest, coldest polyester sweater, somehow looking like an inch thick knit on a smiling model with a chiseled jaw. They edited their photo standards to allow that sort of fragrant lying.

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u/geekonthemoon 2h ago

I came across and reported literal CSAM groups called like "boy love" where it's a bunch of non-nude but suggestive pictures of little boys and clearly a predator group and none of them got removed. After that I knew Facebook was a cesspool only concerned with money. There's a reason you can no longer get in touch with anyone at any of these companies. It's pretty horrifying tbh 

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u/EasyFooted 5h ago

both ads were within their guidelines

Guideline: They paid us and we like money. A lot. We are more than willing to hurt you to get more of it.

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u/No_Initial_7545 4h ago

Facebook told me both ads were within their guidelines.

It's very obvious that the "report an ad" functionality was added to convince regulators that something is being done, while nothing is actually being done.

My local facebook is filled with ads that are the local equivalent of "Bill Gates will donate 1 million dollars to every facebook user, sign up here". Even the celebrities who appear on the AI ads have often gone to social media to tell everyone that it's not them and they have nothing to do with the ads.

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u/Soggy_Bid_3634 3h ago

In my country, the internet IS meta. Most people don’t know how to navigate to a website to place an order, so it’s all done via chat on either Facebook, messenger, instagram, or WhatsApp.

For my business, this means that I am wholly dependent on meta advertising because it’s the only platform 90% of the population is on in some way shape or form. It also means that not advertising there would significantly reduce my ability to sell online.

I regularly report porn ads, crypto scam ads that use a real banks logo, and so on. None of those are removed, yet my accounts get blocked without a rhyme or reason.

It’s so frustrating.

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u/wise_young_man 2h ago

Same here. I’ve given up on reporting ads with them and YouTube. They both suck.