Zuckerberg’s $300 million mega yacht may be tracked here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857511
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
Submitted 10 months ago by Iheartcheese@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads
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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
chellomere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah right, still in the north sea outside of Norway. Recently there was news of Sami villages being bribed to not put up a fuss when a “prominent person” wanted to go heliskiing, then his yacht arrived on site:
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Can’t go skiing with the plebs, no.
chellomere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Translation of article from behind paywall: The Facebook CEO’s enormous yacht has been anchored in a Norwegian fjord near the Swedish border.
Now DN can reveal that several Sami villages have been offered compensation for not saying no to a “prominent person” going on a luxury helicopter skiing trip in the mountains.
- They wanted to buy our silence, says a representative of a Sami village.
At least three villages were contacted in March by a company that arranges helicopter skiing trips. The Sami villages have been offered compensation, ahead of a very secret group of tourists arriving to ski in the Swedish mountains in April. A Norwegian village team has also received a similar offer.
- We understood that it was something special. The organizers were very keen for us to say yes, even though this is before the calving season when the ewes are pregnant and all the reindeer are very fragile after a tough winter, says a representative of a Sami village.
Helicopter skiing in untouched lands, known as heliskiing, has been criticized by reindeer owners for destroying nature and disturbing the reindeer – and the issue has been raised by the Norrbotten County Administrative Board to the government.
According to sources from several Sami villages, the plans for this particular April visit were somewhat out of the ordinary.
The Sami villages, which use helicopters in their reindeer husbandry, were offered six hours of helicopter use by the organizer – which corresponds to around 50,000 kronor.
On April 1, one of the largest private luxury yachts in existence arrived in Bodö, Norway – something that caused a stir in the Norwegian media.
It is owned by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Facebook company Meta, who is one of the richest people in the world. He is one of the billionaires who has tried to approach US President Donald Trump by, among other things, donating money.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My thoughts exactly.
faltryka@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At some point we need to start criminalizing shit like this and actually holding people accountable.
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s so much bigger than this. It starts young. iPad kids. Strict gender roles. Sexualization of children. Learning from parents who have been conditioned by capitalism, sexism and more. We got little girls that want skincare products and teens talking about plastic surgery. It’s bad.
Agreed though. Punish people for ruining society. I think I read a while ago that France had required social media posts to flag when images have been altered. We need more laws like this too.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And mass sharing of images/videos which has made it so much easier to connect people, specifically in one case I saw today of someone on Telegram sharing child porn. How do you even put the cat back in the box?
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As little kids we got like no genderbased education from our parents. When we moved our grandmother got a lot more control and dumped blue boyish stuff on my brother and forbid the girly things. Has never worn a dress since and now is still not willing to wear one
(it could be that us older sisters influenced that he wants to wear dresses too)
Landless2029@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh you mean fines? Sure here’s some money $$. Meanwhile AD rev is $$$$$. Just the cost of doing business! Hahahaa
land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
💯 Big tech companies think they’re above the law.
nlgranger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, they are the system, and the system is held together by the law.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
History has shown that they are.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
they ARE above the law, at least it would seem so.
thejml@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thus far, they’d basically be right. Any fines are simply chocked up to “cost of doing business” expenses and since no one wants to either make solid laws against this stuff OR hold them accountable for current ones, they’ll just keep at it.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Who the fuck comes up with this stuff?
grumpasaurusrex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Per Careless People, the recent memoir that this article pulls from & facebook has been trying to kill, this was one of the many unethical advertising schemes that ultimately traces back to Sheryl Sandberg. A woman who didn’t allow her own children to use fb because she knew she was making it a toxic capitalist hellscape.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
This is the sort of thing machine learning algorithms are pretty good at at.
Coupled with however many millions of interactions a day, you would have no problem correlating changes to your algorithm against increases in revenue.
But. It’s often not that impressive. Humans are equally good at noticing patterns.
All it takes is for one person at FB to see their wife or daughter delete a post, ask them “why did you delete that post” and take away from the response of “It made me look fat” to go “there’s a new targeted ad that’ll get me a bonus”.
In a similar vein, 80% of your banks anti-fraud systems isn’t deep learning models that detect fraudulent behaviour. Instead it’s “if the user is based in Russia, add 80 points, and if the account is at a branch in 10km of Heinersdorf Berlin, add another 50…. We’re pretty sure a Russian scammer goes on holiday every 6 months and opens a bunch of accounts there, we just don’t know which ones”.
Zak@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d bet on it being algorithmic from Facebook because leaning into algorithms is part of that company’s culture. A bunch of manual tweaks require maintenance, though it wouldn’t surprise me if someone was thinking about this when deciding that deleted selfie should be a different signal to the algorithm than deleted picture of cat.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
People who traded morals for money.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The kind of person whose past probably includes more than a few vivisected animals.
captainjaneway@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
The most generous assumption is that they use statistics to determine correlations like this (e.g., deleted selfies resulted in a high CTR for beauty ads so they made that a part of their algo). The least generous interpretation is exactly what you’re thinking: an asshole came up with it because it’s logical and effective.
Either way, ethics needs to be a bigger part of the programmers education. And we, as a society, need to make algorithms more transparent (at least social media algorithms). Reddit’s trending algorithm used to be open source during the good ole days.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Can you make the algorithm that determined it was ok for you to murder Tuvix tho
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And tiktok is supposed to be our enemy?
Headofthebored@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m very skeptical that the Chinese government having your data as an American is worse than the American government and corporations (you know, the people with applicable jurisdiction) having it. Seems more likely to me that American interests just weren’t happy about a huge platform of Americans not being under their umbrella of control and censorship. Sure, you could argue that China of course has their own, but the two wouldn’t completely overlap, so there were windows where things could be freely and organically discussed and organized, without American interference. Obviously that couldn’t be allowed to stand.
ysjet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s very nice and cute that you’re skeptical, but they’re literally doing the same thing, except with a goal of weakening America instead generating more money.
Your skepticism doesn’t matter- it’s an attack on you, stop excusing it.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes there definitely would be an alterior agenda to the reasons for the push to hate on tiktok data fears. But that’s not to say that people are any safer (data wise) with US big tech.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
TikTok absolutely does the same kind of thing and worse. Engagement is all that matters. Doesn’t matter what kind, what about, or how that engagement is generated.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Both can be enemies.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
both ARE enemies.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I agree. I’m addressing the obvious hypocrisy of big tech
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Big tech is our enemy. It doesn’t matter if it’s facebook or tiktok.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I agree!
socphoenix@midwest.social 10 months ago
Wonder how much of a bonus the sick fuck who pitched that got for the idea?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably nothing. Most likely, a paid consultant to give ideas. And if it was a worker, they were just doing their job and at most got a “great job, keep up the good work,” praise email.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Even though Luigi Mangione didn’t actually commit any crime and his trial is a flimsy sham, I agree. He is the public face of whoever really did it, and they are an icon of justice.
seeigel@feddit.org 10 months ago
As if there would be no social networking without Zuckerberg.
Like any sin, the change starts with us. If we want a healthy social network, we can build a healthy social network.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.
Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.
Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.
So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.
Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
If I could go back in time to the moment when ARPANET was created and show them what it would become, I would also beg them to stop their efforts.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tom from Myspace never treated us like this.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Praise the king!