More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    This is what a good chunk of AI use is. CSAM factories. This is why our babies will grow up hearing nothing but fan noises.

    Truly demonic world they’re making.

  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    “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.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      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.

      • Nouvellalia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        Twitter is actively creating and distributing. Meta is actively distributing.

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10 hours

    Responsible behavior is against the interests of metas shareholders so this will continue.

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      They’re also advertising to their own kind.

  • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12 hours

    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.”"

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      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.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    15 hours

    There is absolutely no excuse for such an immensely profitable company to not have a team of humans reviewing ads.

    • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      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.

    • new_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      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).

      • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        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.

  • 712@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11 hours

    What the fuck? I can’t believe this headline. Does anyone have this article without paywall?

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 hours

    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.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15 hours

    Zuck: We are going to train our AI using data from our employees’ computers.

    AI: * generates child porn

    Zuck: Oh…no…

  • mr_might44@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 hours

    Tech companies try not to do anything stupid/controversial challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)