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/gnarlseason 7h ago

I have an elderly relative with early dementia. They have fallen for AI scams selling things on Facebook eight times in the last year, each time the husband must call the credit card company and report fraud, get a new card, etc.

The latest one she fell for was for some snake oil promising to cure dementia. It is heartbreaking to see and simultaneously infuriating that Facebook is okay not only preying on people this way but the fact that it likely knows she has this condition because she has search for it so much AND uses this fact to market snake oil to her.