I feel sorry for these kids - their parents are clearly dumb fucks for still using facebook.
Don’t blame the people for being psychologically manipulated by revenue and shareholder profits. Never blame people for mass marketing psychological manipulation practices.
This was an appropriate position for this situation like 10 years ago before this image was public. Now I squarely blame them for being dumb fucks.
This is why Facebook is so dangerous. If you really want to give up your own privacy that much, go for it. But when you post pictures with other people in it, or talk about them with your friends/family, you’re giving up their privacy too. And they don’t get a choice about it.
Scrolled past this headline and audibly groaned in disgust. Husband asked why so I read it to him.
Him: What is with these creephounds?!? Me: They creeps!
Him: What is with these creephounds?!? Me: They creeps!
I hope you both mean Facebook and not the targeted men.
I very rarely use them but when I do I am targeted non-stop by FB and especially Insta with pictures of young girls. It’s absolutely disgusting and embarrassing (if someone sees it.) The search page is the worst. I don’t click on any of them, I scroll past them as fast as possible in my feed, I don’t like or follow anything like that, and yet it never stops. And that’s one of the main reasons I won’t use them other than to communicate with specific family members or friends.
I mean if grown men are looking for 13 year old school girls to talk to, I don’t feel bad for them if they get busted. However, the creeps that used those photos aren’t really much different, and it seems as though this was just literally a case of Meta trying to entice adult men to connect with young girls.
One of the mothers who had her child’s picture used without consent:
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
These are the people who want to strip away regulations. The party of if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Just don’t ask us any questions about what we’re hiding because it’s classified.
We were talking about Meta scrolling through the IG accounts of parents with teenagers going backs to school, selecting and saving pictures without consent or notification. The thought of somebody (even if it is AI) creeping on you or your child’s account, selecting a photo that they judge suits their needs, saving it to God knows where, and using it as bait to target men who they suspect have similar taste to their own, and are looking for kids to prey on, is not exactly reassuring to say the least.
Even if this was a case of trying to nab somebody who has nefarious intent (which there is no indication of) normally they hire adults that look young to bust people like that. And even then, between AI and Photoshop, I am highly suspicious there would be any legitimate reason they would need to be looking for actual kids to use as bait. And even if any of that was actually the case, there is no way in hell they couldn’t have at least asked for permission instead of burying it in their terms of agreement. This is exploitation of children. Given the world we live in, and the people we all know know were involved in the tech industry and also clients of Epstein, I would be freaking the fuck out of that was my kid.
There is this repeating ad on Sync for Lemmy which pisses me off to no end. They are for various women’s jewelry and the angle of the pictures make the image look very different than what it actually is.
Stopped using it recently just now because of this.
Voyager is better anyway.
Yeah that’s my preferred app now.
I think I’ve seen that one.
I’m wondering if their algorithm recommended this kind of photo because they were being viewed by a lot of men in his age range.
I think the algorithm knew just enough to guess “hey that’s a skirt and hey that’s an exposed leg, and images with those things in them do really with certain customers, and since this was posted by an adult’s account I should auto generate an ad with these images and show it to those customers” but not enough to realize “this is a picture of a child posted by their adult parent’s account”
I log into Facebook once every six months and the ads and reel suggestions are extremely horny
“Yes, I posted this pictures online but I didn’t realize there are man on the internet!”
Kind of sounds like you’re making excuses for Meta and for pedophiles at the same time.
Who’s the pedophile in this story? The person that posted the picture or the person that was shown it in an ad?
Neither. Your comment blamed parents but not Meta. It also talked about “men on the internet” as if they can be expected, as a normal man thing, to be into photos of kids. The concern is not men in general but pedophiles. And the responsibility is not just with parents but with Meta.
Sorry but this is just hilarious. Stupid parents mindlessly posted picture of their children on the internet and are now outraged that someone dared to look at them in a way they didn’t expect. Is the picture sexual or not? If not, who cares how some guy looks at it. If yes, why would parents post them? I know, let’s insert some imagined pedophiles into this story so we can justify our rage.
Stupid parents
Idgaf how stupid their parents are, kids should be protected from being fucking pimped out to sell meta’s brainwashing trash
Is the picture sexual or not?
Give me a break, if we know fucking anything about human sexuality its that different people get aroused by different shit, and sometimes they get aroused by shit they shouldn’t, like children
who cares how some guy looks at it
It feels worth noting here that what actually happened is a single 37 year old dude took it upon himself to call a newspaper and say “yo, Facebook is shoving a bunch of schoolgirls pictures in my face, no boys, just girls, like I think they expect me to be into it, and that feels wrong.” There was no creepy man in this story, the only creep here was the algorithm.
