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Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs

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Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

annexrichmond wrote: post #8

There are many ads on Instagram that makes me wonder how this is legal; for example, I saw a fake site that pretended to be Marine Layer where the clothes were suspiciously cheap. I reported the ad, but they dismissed it. And don't get me started on all the "mushroom alternative", "caffeine alternative", drugs. And it's like everyone and their grandmother has their own Viagra or Hair Loss drug company now Infomercial…

I routinely see ads for scams on YouTube and report them and never hear back.

Stuff like "a 19 year old invented this that saves you a hundred bucks on your power bill but Big electricity is suppressing it"

Just the most bullshit claims over stock footage, things I saw debunked on Snopes 20 years ago as a literal child.

It's disappointing

Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs

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Post by dragontamer »

atonse wrote: post #10

There's just no excuse for this anymore – why don't they apply their own state-of-the-art LLMs to analyze these and flag the adds as pushing potentially illegal substances? Because as it's painfully obvious now, Meta doesn't care, they're happy to take the money.

LLMs create text. They don't understand them in the traditional sense.

LLMs are backwards. Much like how Stable Diffusion is text-to-image, not image-to-text. You need to rework the neural network entirely to do what you're asking.

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Its a neat trick that you can train LLMs to perhaps, ingest "text" followed by a question (ex: "Is the previous paragraph spam?"), and then the text-generator generates a yes-or-no response that is somewhat pleasing.

But its not quite the same as what you're asking for.

Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs

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Post by raybb »

zht wrote: post #14

I've seen many reels for either borderline illegal activity or outright illegal activity -MLMs -"faceless marketing" -"digital marketing" courses -business loan scams -counterfeit luxury goods -extortion

Is faceless marketing (borderline) illegal?

Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs

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Post by Scoundreller »

annexrichmond wrote: post #8

There are many ads on Instagram that makes me wonder how this is legal; for example, I saw a fake site that pretended to be Marine Layer where the clothes were suspiciously cheap. I reported the ad, but they dismissed it. And don't get me started on all the "mushroom alternative", "caffeine alternative", drugs. And it's like everyone and their grandmother has their own Viagra or Hair Loss drug company now Infomercial…

It’s possible they’re not legal.

Google got hit for internet pharmacies and forfeited all the revenue they got.

I’m sure Google had no problem paying the same number of dollars in 2011 but really liked that money in their earlier days when there wasn’t as much big $ legit ad demand.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/google-forfeits-500-million-g...

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