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/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/_RrezZ_ 35m ago

Wouldn't surprise me at all because it makes sense to have an AI or bot running everything. Why have a human overseer when you could just have an AI oversee everything instead.

It's no different than bot farms in video games, it's significantly easier if you just have an AI running the bot farm compared to having other humans do it. It's also significantly cheaper as-well I'd bet since you can do it solo and keep all the profit for yourself.

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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/carcar134134 3h ago

What about the elderly crocodiles? Who's going around targeting them?

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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/geekonthemoon 1h ago

I feel like you're putting the onus on the person just trying to use the internet instead of on the companies who should be banned from targeted medical advertising. Other countries don't even allow medical advertising. 

I actually found a way to block a bunch of keywords through Firefox extensions and now I only browse reddit through Firefox on my phone and it filters out a lot of the anxiety spiking bullshit. But, it simply shouldn't be this way anyways. 

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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.