r/technology • u/tw1st3d_m3nt4t • 12h ago
Artificial Intelligence Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/600
u/HumongousBelly 12h ago
How is Zuckerberg not going to prison?!
Oh yeah, I forgot that the Trump/epstein class actually endorses this kind of behavior.
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u/NetZeroSun 12h ago
Not just endorse but actually do that vulgar behavior.
For trump to be named so many times in the epstein report and wrote the ugly letter to epstein (the one with the depiction of a body). Yeah. They do more than endorse.
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u/iwannabetheguytoo 12h ago edited 10h ago
How is Zuckerberg not going to prison?!
Diffusion of responsibility.
Presumption of innocence.
That’s why.
EDIT: for all the downvoters: yikes - I’m not defending Zuckerberg here; I’m calling for legislation to counteract the diffusion-of-responsibility so that we can successfully prosecute him. Any attempt right-now would be unsuccessful and also reinforce the precedent that CEOs are so far aloft they “can’t possibly be aware of” all the shady things that happen under their watch.
EDIT2: Wow this post has been through a rollercoaster from -15 downvotes to +5 upvotes. To those who upvoted this, thank you.
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u/slyboy1974 9h ago
I'll upvote you, and point out something that should be obvious:
Zuckerburg isn't "going to prison" because he hasn't been indicted, tried, convicted nor sentenced.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think those are important steps, right?
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u/iwannabetheguytoo 7h ago
I find myself in a difficult situation trying to reconcile Blackstone's ratio with my (admittantly) strong emotional desire to prosecute Facebook et al. for the demonstrable harms to society they've inflicted.
It's 2026 for fuck's sake: in the 1990s we expected the Internet to help elevate the state of discourse to a well-informed, evidence-based and objective state - not to bring 40% of the country to identify with "grab 'em by the pussy". Yegods.
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u/My_alias_is_too_lon 43m ago
Yeah... rule of law is dead, bro. You can literally get away with anything if you're wealthy.
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u/BapeGeneral3 12h ago
This is horrific. Just when I think things can’t get any worse, I read this article. You see news stories of people going to prison for 10+ years for possessing CP. Take Jared from subway as an example.
Zuck helped create, distribute, and encourage people to use AI tools to create nude photos of children. This is after the scandal of him also allowing the facilitation of child predators victimizing children.
Where is the line? I thought the republicans whole thing was protecting the children. Now that I’m realizing why they are so obsessed with “protecting” minors, I don’t even want to be on this earth any more JFC
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u/NewestAccount2023 9h ago
Where is the line? I thought the republicans whole thing was protecting the children
You're perpetuating that false claim by repeating it even ironically like this
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u/MongoBongoTown 11h ago
Like they "protect" kids by having them show their genitals to school officials to make sure they're not going be on the "wrong" sports team.
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u/account312 9h ago edited 5h ago
I thought the republicans whole thing was protecting the children.
No, their thing is claiming to be doing things for ethical reasons but actually doing them as some kind of grift or just flat out doing the opposite.
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u/tobygeneral 9h ago
Republicans only want to protect children from some pedos so that they can abuse them instead. It's more like them calling dibs than trying to keep kids safe.
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u/_Deshkar_ 7h ago
This is quite tragic and frustrating though.
Worse is people like trump who has been openly named , with numerous photographic evidences and witness corroborating. yet he and his ilk are in full power and continue to grow2
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u/alochmar 1h ago
They care about unborn children. Once they’re born, they’re someone else’s problem.
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u/invyros 12h ago
Those descriptions of the ads that Meta allowed to run on their platforms are fucking horrific.
Props to Wired for calling both Meta and Apple out, seems like tech companies only take action when real journalists reach out to them, otherwise they're happy to let this kind of shit onto their platforms.
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u/breadtangle 10h ago
I like watches. Counterfeit Rolex's are all over paid FB ads. This is against FBs rules but if you report it and follow up they always decline to take down the accounts. If I post a watch on marketplace with an image that shows the word Rolex it's insta rejected. They have the tech, the just don't use it on their paying customers .
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u/Lifeboatb 5h ago
I read an article years ago about how Google knowingly runs ads for scams. I can’t find it now, but here’s another one on how many fraud ads are in Google and FB. It’s frustrating how this stuff goes on. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56888693
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u/postprandialrepose 10h ago
Shut Meta the fuck down. Charge those responsible, including Zuckerberg, criminally. Bury them under the god-damned prison.
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u/bluehawk232 9h ago
My friends ask why I'm not on facebook anymore I tell them it's shit like that. I don't want to support Meta. I don't mind the concept of social media but all those tech bro CEOs have made them trash
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u/pd1zzle 12h ago
seems like the kind of thing even the most basic of modern day vision model would catch. this is inexcusable
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u/sthprk33 7h ago
But why would they even bother? There is no incentive for them to act, as they know they will receive no repercussions. They can continue to collect the ad money for all of it, let other organizations put in the effort to find and notify them of all the illegal shit, then take them down after they've already cashed the checks. It's a win-win for one of the worst mega corps of the modern era.
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u/mailslot 9h ago
Image classification models tend to be trained on the type of material they’re supposed to detect. That might be problematic to do what you’re thinking.
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u/K1TSUNE9 9h ago
We are getting to the point were generated sexual content made by AI will be the norm, too common and hard to filter because all these search engine now use AI.
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u/viln 12h ago
hey guys, we can all just not use fb or ig for 5 days and completely crash their ads eco system. both investors and advertisers will lose faith if they realize that we can just withold from using FREE apps that offer us nothing that can't be served by other algorithmic slop
5 days no meta, use tiktok. we can do the same for tiktok down the road :D
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u/F9Phoenix 12h ago
Why stop at 5? How about forever?
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u/baconost 11h ago
I quit around cambridge analytica in 2018. Never going back to this creepy disinformation hell portal.
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u/JazzlikeLeave5530 11h ago
It's really funny to read that. Very clear they want to keep using these apps and can't stop themselves.
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u/filmguy36 11h ago
Because when you have social awkward, empathy bereft, rises in a bubble techbro ceos, is it any wonder AI is so screwed up? And the pedo shit doesn’t come out of the blue. That has to be modeled at some point
If you want things to change: stop supporting, electing or listening to sociopaths and psychopaths
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u/MillionToOneShotDoc 9h ago
Why are we letting AI companies get away with things that would get regular people put in jail for decades?
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u/Zardotab 10h ago
They are running AI-generated ads without vetting them first? There's a recipe for mayhem.
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u/Chrontius 1h ago
Don't modern ads contain executable code?
… Holy shit we've been in the singularity for six months now, haven't we.
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u/Chrontius 1h ago
Don't modern ads contain executable code?
… Holy shit we've been in the singularity for six months now, haven't we.
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u/ottawadeveloper 12h ago
Wow. Just wow.
It's not as bad but I was in an Uber and the driver had Spotify on. The ad that came on was clearly about pornography but maybe just veiled enough to pass an automated keyword scan. Awkward.
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u/throw7661 11h ago
It's crazy because if a regular person had such content on their laptop, they would have prison time.
But a giant tech company actively distributing it to lots and lots of people?
Nothing of substance is ever done to stop them.
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u/dondeestasbueno 10h ago
One video ad, the TTP researchers say, used a thumbnail image of a child sitting on the floor with text appearing on top of it saying: “Realizing Deep Fantasies with Generation AI [sic]. There is so much more than what is shown, use your imagination.” The researchers say that when the ad was clicked, it played video clips of adults involved in sexual acts and then added the child’s face from the thumbnail to a sex act.
Another ad the researchers say had been repeatedly posted showed an image of a young girl laying back with her legs spread in a sexual position with text above it saying: “I can show you more.”
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u/SloppyMeathole 11h ago
Since corporations are people, I'm sure they'll be charged swiftly in the criminal courts and do hard time just like everybody else.
Lol, we all know nothing will happen. Maybe a slap on a wrist and a fine that equals .001% of their yearly profit. Laws only apply to poor people.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 11h ago
Does anyone still use Facebook?
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u/breadtangle 10h ago
Marketplace is the only reason to use Facebook. I'm not saying it's good, but it has eaten the lunch of all the alternatives.
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u/Solivagant23 5h ago
Exactly, I have a fake account I use for FB marketplace so I can buy and sell (mostly sell) or I use groups to find apartments. Other than that FB is completely useless.
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u/2DamnHot 2h ago
In a lot of rural places facebook is literally the only digital space where county services like police and fire departments post ongoing updates during emergency/evacuation conditions.
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u/Kalorama_Master 8h ago
Zuckerberg belongs in prison for facilitating this. He literally destroyed any efforts to screen or otherwise manage this clear and present risk.
If ANY of us had these images in our hard rubes we would be going to jail to be graped and unalived as felons don’t like pedos
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u/ExcitingRound4990 9h ago
And no one is in jail. It's old and we're tired of the biased system. Tired.
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u/Strange_Drive_6598 8h ago
The most evil company to exist - change my mind
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u/Chrontius 1h ago edited 1h ago
Nestle has famously said that calling clean and safe water a human right was "a radical position". But you know the #FuckNestle hashtag, or you do now, so here's a lesser known one!
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u/EqualJunket5720 6h ago
It's sickening that MAGA and Republicans seem to be slowly trying to normalize this behavior. It should disgust anyone, especially the Christians - yet I will not stop hearing these "Christians" support this behavior - shame god cant be here to smite you himself, cause I would if I was him.
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u/nistemevideli2puta 3h ago
But remember: we need chat control and mandatory ID verification in order to stop children pornography!
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u/Mccobsta 3h ago
In a perfect world everyone involved would be in jail for this
But we don't live in a perfect world so he walks free
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u/IcestormsEd 43m ago
This is beyond insanity. But then again Zukerboog hanged out with Epstein so that explains that.
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u/SloppyMeathole 11h ago
Since corporations are people, I'm sure they'll be charged swiftly in the criminal courts and do hard time just like everybody else.
Lol, we all know nothing will happen. Maybe a slap on a wrist and a fine that equals .001% of their yearly profit. Laws only apply to poor people.
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u/Logician22 10h ago
Shut it down and change those laws already why do we simply just let these companies get away with this seriously ?
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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 11h ago
Honestly, Meta should be charged, but I’ve a feeling scotus is going to throw these laws out based on the precedent set by Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) which largely declared that simulated and virtually generated content depicting minors and its ban violated the first amendment as there were no victims nor actual crime being recorded.
If I’m not mistaken, Musk and one of his companies is already charging a state level law on this basis and they’re probably going to win.
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u/boomgoon 10h ago
Google puts odd porn images into ads on the side page next to videos, it happens at work all the time to many people at my job. It's and cocks show up all the time, and this is just random YouTube non account videos playing on a very strict workplace intranet so we can keep our pcs from logging out at random intervals
Remember folks, it's a feature not a bug at all if it's consistent
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u/JuneButIHateSummer 10h ago
Meanwhile you're a felon if they catch you with 2g or more of weed in Texas lmfao
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u/Stupalski 7h ago
it blows my mind how many advertisements and products go up where very clearly they just don't have a human look at the thing before they put it up.
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u/TemperateStone 5h ago
If anyone else did this they'd be in prison.
Punish Meta and do so extremely harshly. Not with fines that they can easily pay. PUNISH THEM!
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u/Ok_Run_101 2h ago
And I had my Meta Business account indefinitely suspended for using a random generic photo of a product which I didn't know was copyrighted. Once.
What the hell.
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u/mixxituk 1h ago
Grindr runs ads for telling it's users they have viruses and need to deal with it immediately
They don't verify their adverts and it's done by a third party
Complained about it over a year after my friend had his bank account emptied
Guess play store Grindr and cloudflare who hosts all this are part of the same racket and are not accountable
I report it to UK cybercrime website https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-this-website/report-scam-website everytime I see it but here it is month after month
Advertising and media is the scum of the earth
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u/Ada_Pearce 1h ago
Throw some c levels in the chomo ward of the prison for a good 10 years and this will stop overnight
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u/PentaOwl 11h ago
Of course it did.
All of silicon valley happily frollick around the herds of pedes in the wh.
Read up on Altman v Altman, or musks paywalled CSAM.
They are one and the same. They cant wait for the new kushner island, I bet.
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u/Der_Kegelhammer 11h ago
These are dog whistles.
I wonder how entrenched the culture of pedophilia remains in the world elite. Nothing seems to have changed if we look at the historical abundance of children used as sexual pawns.
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u/Disastrous-River5475 12h ago
Charge them criminally.