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Posted by randycupertino 1 day ago

Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue(finance.yahoo.com)
510 points | 228 commentspage 6
sneak 1 day ago|
eBay is also knowingly complicit in enabling completely fraudulent sellers, by policy, at scale.

It improves their bottom line, so everyone there is disincentivized to fix it.

otterley 1 day ago|
I wouldn’t argue they are “knowingly complicit” as much as they are “willfully blind.”
7373737373 1 day ago|||
It's at least vast criminal negligence then. At a billion dollar scale you can't just say "oopsie", profit at that scale comes with a supervisory and controlling responsibility. It's not like they wouldn't analyze where their money is coming from, what specifically is profitable
otterley 1 day ago||
> profit at that scale comes with a supervisory and controlling responsibility

If only that were true. The law is pretty weak in this area.

sneak 1 day ago|||
That’s the thing, though. They aren’t blind, you just can’t prove it. They’re plausibly blind, strictly from a legal standpoint.

They know.

I’ve sent them high res well lit photo evidence of the fraud and they still left me to have to do a chargeback via my card issuer for receiving counterfeit merchandise. You know this has happened thousands of times.

d--b 1 day ago||
The main issue is that most ads are scam anyways. Where do you draw the line?

The Gordon Ramsey pans are not considered scam, but they’re still highly priced garbage sold by a greatly misleading ad.

The Tai Chi thing is clearly a scam, but it’s lying just a little more than the pans ad, and pointing you to a definitely more predatory business.

But they are not fundamentally different…

randycupertino 1 day ago||
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ReDress 1 day ago||
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