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Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Re: Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Post by tgtweak »

I've ran into this even in my limited advertising on meta - they actaully want you to use the actual individual's facebook account to manage the ads accounts, even on behalf of the clients through the agency.

This is kind of insane behavior but when you remember that google actually supports enterprise domains and SSO and facebook has very little of that - or relatively little - it makes sense. If you are personally banned from facebook for whatever reason, you cannot have a business account under another email - once you validate your identity it regurgitates the ban.

Despite this being an obvious antipattern to security it is very much by design for meta.

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Post by KellyCriterion »

realusername wrote: post #5
pogue wrote: post #3

The same thing is happening to end users, the consumers that they maybe want seeing those ads. Random, totally out of the blue bans on Meta platforms for no rhyme or reason. It's all over reddit: r/facebookdisabledme r/FixMyInstagram r/InstagramDisabledBans r/MetaLawsuits

It's almost impossible to create a new Facebook account nowadays and I wonder if that's one of the cause of the decline of Facebook

How do they expect future growth then?

In general, its really stunning that Meta stock price grew that much since 2012 - when they IPO'd in 2012, I thought i will be a "cheap stock" around 50 - 70 USD.

Re: Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Post by KellyCriterion »

ayaros wrote: post #2

If meta wants to cut out the middleman and let businesses pay directly for ai generated ads, I doubt they have any incentive to fix this.

This wont help the customers from the article?

The reason why they need agencies to deploy ads is thats its not their core business - so they wont be able to setup Meta ads on their own?

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Post by psgdev »

I’ve been trying to sell my old iPhone and AirPods on Facebook Marketplace. Since I wanted them gone quickly, I priced them a bit lower than similar listings but Facebook instantly flagged them as “counterfeit.” I thought maybe the issue was my photos, so I relisted with clearer pictures… same result. Every appeal just gets an automated rejection with no real explanation. Now I’m getting warnings that I’m “at risk of losing access to Marketplace.”

It honestly feels like their AI is using a hard, oversimplified rule: “iPhone 8 listed for $80? Must be counterfeit.”

Re: Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Post by Maxious »

realusername wrote: post #5
pogue wrote: post #3

The same thing is happening to end users, the consumers that they maybe want seeing those ads. Random, totally out of the blue bans on Meta platforms for no rhyme or reason. It's all over reddit: r/facebookdisabledme r/FixMyInstagram r/InstagramDisabledBans r/MetaLawsuits

It's almost impossible to create a new Facebook account nowadays and I wonder if that's one of the cause of the decline of Facebook

nice username... I was going to say, we warned about this with the google+ real name policy "nymwars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars and the cloudflare AI bot blocking that blocks humans

Yes it's potentially good for reducing spam and terribly good for collecting personal information for advertisers. Both at the expense of making social networks inaccessible to real people.

Re: Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Post by csomar »

matt_heimer wrote: post #20

I think most big tech companies are like this and it's just going to get worse as AI adoption increases internally. 2 days ago I tried to create new gmail account and Google insisted that my phone number was used too many times. Fine, I'll pay for a new workspace account... Submit my billing information, that same that I use on other accounts but now there is an extra validation step that requires my ID and copies of…

The sad part is that you gave your information and kept trying to give them money despite all of this hassle? What is exactly you are looking for? If it's email, there is tons of providers out there who will be happy to take your money.
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