Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads

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MyOpinion@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

This is the year I hope to have Meta fully out of my life.

Dropper_Post@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
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oxjox@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

...the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit "moments of psychological vulnerability" in its users by targeting terms like "worthless," "insecure," "stressed," "defeated," "anxious," "stupid," "useless," and "like a failure."

As much as there's an opportunity for selling a product, there's an opportunity for extending support. Maybe there's a sliver of a silver lining in that this surveillance could be used for good. It's disheartening though that of course this will never happen.

I mean, if you wanted to be the good guy, you'd develop AI chat bots that could reach out to people seemingly in distress.

reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y

It will never be used for good by capitalists, sadly.