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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

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Re: Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

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Post by malshe »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #5

> but as Wired notes, it relies on "automated tools" as part of the process, which may have been how the more than 50 ads TTP discovered made it through. Again, and again, and again, these technologies have proven ineffective to moderate content. User posted and otherwise. Until we have a legal mechanism in place to hold these companies meaningfully liable for this, it will not stop. Every single one of these has the…

I think people have been demanding this for ages but lobbying by social media companies against any change in the law is enormous.

As for the cost of content moderation, Meta has zero interest in any type of moderation to begin with. The cost is just a public-facing excuse. In Careless People, Wynn-Williams mentions that Facebook didn't do anything to stop anti rohingya posts in Myanmar because they did not have any fact checkers who could read Burmese. In other words, they did not have a single moderator in the damn country.

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john_strinlai wrote: post #18
duped wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they couldn't possibly do it at that the scale they're operating at. They couldn't hire enough people in the countries they operate, or know the language, or trust that who they do hire aren't corrupt or working against their interest. And they can't manually approve every ad, or make sure targeting isn't illegal or otherwise harmful. --- This is sarcasm, by the way. Most decent people make sure what they're abou…

> But they couldn't possibly do it at that the scale they're operating at. They couldn't hire enough people in the countries they operate, or know the language, or trust that who they do hire aren't corrupt or working against their interest. And they can't manually approve every ad, or make sure targeting isn't illegal or otherwise harmful. you say sarcasm, but i think this is literally true. this isn't a defense of…

Don’t they have like an 80% gross margin?

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josefritzishere wrote: post #15

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So you throw theZuck in the hoosegow. Now what? FB will continue printing money and doing the things it always has even if under new management. Why do you think it'll change with just throw theZuck in jail?

Re: Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

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Post by john_strinlai »

lokar wrote: post #23
john_strinlai wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But they couldn't possibly do it at that the scale they're operating at. They couldn't hire enough people in the countries they operate, or know the language, or trust that who they do hire aren't corrupt or working against their interest. And they can't manually approve every ad, or make sure targeting isn't illegal or otherwise harmful. you say sarcasm, but i think this is literally true. this isn't a defense of…

Don’t they have like an 80% gross margin?

the amount of content posted per second to facebook is unfathomable. a quick google (just for a rough order of magnitude) says ~65,000 posts per second. add in instagram (which is worse for CSAM) and its gotta be at least double that.

it would require millions on millions of employees, spread across ~every country. between the payroll, buildings and property, equipment, etc. i just dont think its possible at that scale.

(again, emphasizing that im not saying this as an excuse for facebook, but that i dont really think facebook/instagram should exist at all)

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Post by gambiting »

john_strinlai wrote: post #27
lokar wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t they have like an 80% gross margin?

the amount of content posted per second to facebook is unfathomable . a quick google (just for a rough order of magnitude) says ~65,000 posts per second . add in instagram (which is worse for CSAM) and its gotta be at least double that. it would require millions on millions of employees, spread across ~every country. between the payroll, buildings and property, equipment, etc. i just dont think its possible at that s…

Right, but the article isn't about posts, but about a paid ad campaign - surely those are started in numbers that could be moderated?
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