Re:Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs...
by mschuster91 on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:27AM
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> and oddly enough cellular/wifi jammers where the ad was specifically targeting semi truck drivers
That one is about fighting back against employer surveillance, and it's not just limited to semi truck drivers any more, people are also really interested in fighting back against their car snitching on them to their insurance.
Re:Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs...
by coldtea on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:30AM
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>Actually, you do see ads for those things there
At 1/1000 the rate.
Re:Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs...
by pixl97 on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:27AM
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The rate should be zero, or very very close to it.
Re:Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs...
by monster_truck on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:29PM
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With the amount of money they've spent minimizing liability and covering up what a dogshit job they do, they probably could have hired enough humans to handle manually combing through each submission, and an engineering team to train a classifer. It's disgusting imho
Re:Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs...
by monster_truck on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:28PM
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Wrong, I see them as much or more than I see completely insane, unrelated ads for things like "managing my herd of cows". I do not live on or anywhere near cow farms, or know anyone who has cows, or lives near cow farms.
Re:Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs...
by kakacik on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:38AM
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> I do not drive a semi truck, gamble, or search for unscheduled drug analogues, nor do I have an active amazon account
Yeah yeah yeah but what about those stranger and more fucked up things? They come from someplace like fingerprinting your browser, no? A genuine question, as a user of firefox + ublock I simply don't see them, not on desktop not on phone. The only ads I rarely see are some given server decides to host themselves.
These kinds of ads aside, I've also seen offers of free shit from amazon sellers in exchange for positive reviews, "legal"/unscheduled drug analogues, flavored nitrous (free shipping!), unrestricted gambling/prediction markets, and oddly enough cellular/wifi jammers where the ad was specifically targeting semi truck drivers (I do not drive a semi truck, gamble, or search for unscheduled drug analogues, nor do I have an active amazon account)