Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

kbal@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The images drew 1000s new views to the instqgram page, 90% were men. I think we can say it was fed to men

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  • kbal@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dunno whether that's Facebook pushing it more often to men (because their analytics shows it works on their audience) or men clicking on it more often because it works on the Facebook audience.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both? Which feeds the algorithm

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have thousands of employees who discuss and make decisions before anything changes. Everything Meta does is intentional.

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  • verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to assume this is Meta’s usual level of negligent greed, and there’s a decent chance that no human was involved. YouTube actually did something very similar.

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  • kbal@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some fraction of the harm they do is by carelessness rather than malice. That some mindless algorithm intended to find and exploit for advertising purposes the posts that got the most engagement disproportionately selected ones featuring images of cute teenagers does not seem unlikely.

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    • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’ve intentionally maliciously set up systems where “carelessness” leads to these malicious outcomes.

      It’s not fail safe, nor fail secure. It’s fail evil.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think we can apply Hanlon to anything Meta does.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They have been doing it long enough to know that happens.

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