return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square171linkfedilinkarrow-up1621
arrow-up1621external-linkDevastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20www.tomshardware.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前message-square171linkfedilink
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·5 天前something tells me the dad is the one is behind the channel and used his son as a shield. a 9year old isnt going to know how to set up a ad campaign.
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·5 天前Pff. Kid probably has 8 years of experience using YouTube
minus-squareburghler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 天前With LLMs a 9 year old could manage. It’s made accessible anything to anyone. Like vibe coding to untrained programmers
minus-squaretitanicx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 天前Don’t even need an LLM to set this up. It’s not hard, and it sounds like the dad helped and agreed to one 20$ spend which recurred into a massive ad spend.
minus-squarefloquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 天前Or gives the illusion of being accessible anyway, see end result.
minus-squarechewypoops@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 天前Something tells me you didn’t read the article, because this is explained in the article.
minus-squareAAA@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 天前Something should also tell you that there’s a direct incentive for companies to make it as easy as possible to spend money on their services.
something tells me the dad is the one is behind the channel and used his son as a shield. a 9year old isnt going to know how to set up a ad campaign.
Pff. Kid probably has 8 years of experience using YouTube
With LLMs a 9 year old could manage. It’s made accessible anything to anyone. Like vibe coding to untrained programmers
Don’t even need an LLM to set this up. It’s not hard, and it sounds like the dad helped and agreed to one 20$ spend which recurred into a massive ad spend.
Or gives the illusion of being accessible anyway, see end result.
Something tells me you didn’t read the article, because this is explained in the article.
Something should also tell you that there’s a direct incentive for companies to make it as easy as possible to spend money on their services.