I just want to say thank you for your python courses. I learned a lot over the years from your teaching style.
Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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What's wrong with talking about animals anyway? Truly bizarre.
Just guessing here, but if the senteces sounded like "how to use pandas to help you in work" AI could have decided that you're going to use a cute bear to lay bricks for you. Plus the "exotic animals", as someone else mentioned.
Makes me wonder what's the worst possible phrasing
"Master Python and Pandas, make them work for you, attack new challanges, earn good money"
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#223I mean who cares. Some website blocked some person from spending money on advertising on their platform. This person who already has their own website and a lot of means to propagate whatever they wish and conduct business on the Internet in many other ways. It happens all , the , time . Also this non-sense is repetitive here, with nothing new to add, nothing technical, nothing intersting. Just useless filler content…
Until it happens to you.
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#224I hang out in the whitewater community on Facebook and there’s tons of stories about bans for selling dagger kayaks because the systems believe you’re selling weapons.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be somewhat fair to Meta; the "violation of unclear rules part" part is an appropriate response for spam detection . Usually any entity dealing with the web don't want to reveal how their spam detector works because doing so could in turn reveal information on how to circumvent it[0]. The issue is that Meta thinks they're large enough that they can apply this to every single one of their business customers and all…
Or they could, you know, spend some of their billions on employing humans to review these cases.
The spammers can produce far more cases than the humans can review.
Welcome to the world of automation.
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Don't need for book references, that is how it is today in many countries, and it has been always in less democratic societies.
Yeah! How dare they, referencing literature.
Referencing 1984, Brave New World and that quote about freedom of speech that Voltaire never actually said make up the holy trinity of pseudo-intellectual posturing on the internet.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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Sounds like speculation to me. Anything to back that up?
What would be the alternative here? Meta bans people from selling live animals or bans them from selling programming courses?
I don't think it is stated anywhere that the ban was the result of the thing that was being advertised.
> This review found inauthentic behavior or violations of our Advertising Policies or Community Guidelines
There could be thousands of other things.
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#228Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#229I wonder if anyone is recognizing that the fail here is in removing a human element in the support and instead relying on a far inferior technology to handle cases it can't handle. In other words, the problem is that suddenly a machine is not only making laws but also executing them. But we as a society did not agree to hand our laws to the machine. Luckily, the area where these laws apply, is very narrow atm - it is…
From the comments, I think everyone here is recognizing that removing the human element is the problem. What I think is missed by some is that the human element is also the solution - don't use products whose support processes are like this.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#230>That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas. Never mind that the first is a programming language and the second is a library for data analysis in Python. Meta’s AI system noticed that I was talking about Python and Pandas, assumed that I was talking about the animals (not the technology), and banned me. If this is true, that is insanely embarrassing for a company that purports to be a sophisticated programmat…
Sounds like speculation to me. Anything to back that up?
Clearly it’s speculation, this entire thread is speculation because Meta won’t actually tell anyone why they were banned.