There is absolutely no excuse for such an immensely profitable company to not have a team of humans reviewing ads.

I read the title, and despite how shitty Meta is, I just thought the headline had to be sensationalized.

Nope.

"One video ad, the TTP researchers say, used a thumbnail image of a child sitting on the floor with text appearing on top of it saying: “Realizing Deep Fantasies with Generation AI [sic]. There is so much more than what is shown, use your imagination.” The researchers say that when the ad was clicked, it played video clips of adults involved in sexual acts and then added the child’s face from the thumbnail to a sex act.

Another ad the researchers say had been repeatedly posted showed an image of a young girl laying back with her legs spread in a sexual position with text above it saying: “I can show you more.”"

I’m sure the FBI will be dispatching a team of experts to immediately investigate the servers at Meta, seize and analyze the offending content, and rescue the children being abused.

How about another congressional inquiry with Zuck’s robot doppelgänger?

Or, maybe the latest rogue Meta AI could be used to regulate Facebook advertising content instead of boosting stock price.

Mandate that websites support ad-blocking? Stop using Facebook?

What am I talking about? None of that will happen of course, that would be insane! Let’s just continue on as if everything is normal, because that’s what this is now. This is what’s normal in a world with the Meta corporation.

Responsible behavior is against the interests of metas shareholders so this will continue.

Err... no shit? I spent 5 years off the internet. When I got back around a year ago I tried making a facebook account just to keep in touch with some family members.

Go try it. Use a VPN to block your IP, make a brand new account from a brand new email address and pop on and off a few times. I gaurantee that their shorts section will show you little girls in bikinis or skin tight leotards doing "gymnastics" that aren't actually gymnastics. Click on one of them and read the insane comments from men very clearly saying they want to fuck these children.

Congratulations. Now that you've clicked on one of them they will show up in that shorts section a lot more often. If you click a few to read the comments in horror you'll be getting loads of them.

They appear in the shorts section, which is 55% dedicated to women doing blatantly sexual things, 20% guys doing stupid things, 5% anything else they might think will make people click, and 20%.... children in very revealing and/or skin tight clothing.

They use those things for a reason. It's what gets the most clicks. It's what causes the highest user engagement and retention. They know what all those comments say. They know why those videos are there. A lot of them aren't just videos. They're fucking ads. If you decide to go real deep into the rabbit whole you can start searching for the name of the girl and or their "modeling" or "gymnastics" company online. It won't take many tries from those videos to hit some result that sends you to Telegram or a Darknet page where you can send some form of digital currency in exchange for the real stuff for the models of your choice. (Note: This was when I stopped and tried to report it to the government before realizing the US government now supports child rape.)

Some of these girls have moved directly from videos like this to OnlyFans or similar sites. Some of them are known to have pictures from before they turned 18 that they started sending on those the day they did turn 18, after years of getting attention and drumming up followers online starting before they were even teenagers, and often selling CSAM on the down low.

I'd be shocked if they started these things, as little kids, because they decided to make the world's most fucked up early retirement plan. Adults were involved. No way in hell a good amount of the girls weren't trafficked, and that many aren't also available for in person visits from the very rich customers.

Meta caters to child rapists and pedophiles. They help them run their businesses. They have all the back end information to track the users and accounts, the AI to track the images of the girls, the "agency" names, all of it. But instead of doing their best to stop it because it's fucking awful they push that onto the feeds of people their algorithms say will like it so they make more money off of ads.

Meta, the company it was already open news that Zuckerberg wanted his AI to sex chat with children, because that meant they'd spend more time on his platform. After All the crazy harm the platforms are going to little girls was big news and a big court issue.

While making and marketing special glasses for pedophiles to use to record innocent children in public without anyone freaking out.

This might be the least ethical and most outright evil tech company there is. If they knew no one would report it and it would get them more users and money they'd absolutely keep sending CSAM out to people.

"every accusation is a confession"
Y'all remember how they used to say the Democrats and queer people were going to "normalize child pornography"? Now meta and twitter, themselves responsible for at least half of all magats, are actively creating and distributing CSAM, with no pushback from the Republican government.

Zuck: We are going to train our AI using data from our employees' computers.

AI: * generates child porn

Zuck: Oh...no....

This is what a good chunk of AI use is. CSAM factories. This is why our babies will grow up hearing nothing but fan noises.

Truly demonic world they're making.

What the fuck? I can’t believe this headline. Does anyone have this article without paywall?

If I could bet on nobody getting fined or indicted over this... easy money.

My God. That article and website... What a mess. The internet is borked.

Tech companies try not to do anything stupid/controversial challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

So now Meta has actively produced and hosted CSAM material, when does the sites get seized?

Everybody is blaming Meta for serving these ads, but, you see, they just didn't know. They took them down as soon as the were informed. Really, how could they possibly have known the content of the ads they sold, hosted and served? Those ads were very much against their rules, I can assure you of that. Their automated detection system is doing its best, and these "researchers" only proved it let through fifty odd such images. Meta swear it stopped a whole bunch more. What more do you want from them? What? You want them to pay someone to actually vet the ads they serve? Don't be ridiculous, that would cut into their profits. Unacceptable. Hold them responsible for the illegal content of ads they served? Absolutely not. How dare you?!

/s in case it wasn't painfully obvious.

I've been flagging these on Facebook, which I have a blank account only for marketplace. Facebook NEVER does anything about it and I've been increasingly concerned. My reports get closed as "content does not break terms of use".

The things I see through Facebook ads are not necessarily ai generated. They are just disgusting images, or allusions. Like an anime image of an old man surrounded by young boys with captions about a romance dating sim.

Yes, it is full of ads alluding to or including CSAM.

It's been like this for a while. The suggested shorts frequently imply sexual content with minors and Facebook friend suggestions on blank accounts frequently include 14-16 year old girls.

Don't believe me, create a fresh Facebook account and just browse the feed. It's vile. The second you click it to report it, the algo will show you so much more.

Edit: There's also a large number of fake user accounts promoting onlyfans or phishing scams including photos of under 18 girls in swimsuits with captions like "would you date someone young like me?". Facebook also closed those reported tickets as not violating community guidelines.

I flagged one of these in January, I just found it and the user is celebrating her "birthday" holding balloons 1 and 3. Still active.

I've appealed some of these reports they closed and they claimed a human reviewed it and it still didnt violate guidelines.

They at best don't give a fuck, at worst actively want this space to flourish within their platform. I think Facebook is behaving in a criminal way, either through negligence or complicit.

Don't assume all this content is ai. It's just as likely trafficking networks are producing these images or stealing them from minors' accounts. These images could have been produced ages ago as well.

These cybercriminals absolutely have CSAM they will show as a means of achieving phishing or pig butchering scams. Facebook allows its space to be a launching point for this.

reads headline
w-wh-a-... did I read that right?
adjusts glasses
Oh... I did. Fuck Meta. Like, really fuck them up. Please.

As the company implies, some of the offending ads got past Meta’s new AI technology. Initially, the TTP researchers found around two dozen ads displaying the abusive content. However, hours ahead of publication, the researchers discovered around 30 more. Many of these ads had been published after WIRED first asked Meta about the content, with multiple ads being live and shown to accounts at the time researchers discovered them.

Everyone involved in the process for those ads needs to be on a sex offender registry at a minimum. The entire company needs to be shut down for a few months while they are searched thoroughly for any more signs of CSAM distribution.

You train a piece of programming on Reddit and the entirety of the internet, then have it run by emotionally stunted sociopaths. How is any of this surprising?

They know their audience

its not like it makes a difference to the android in control, hes not human. im guessing Musk doesnt want to be left behind in the race to produce AI generated CSAM.

Accountability should scale with automation too

Wait, does Zuck fuck kids now too?

I originally thought that the title expressed "Meta created ads that contained AI-generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery, and then ran them". However, it seems that the article actually expresses "One or more people who are probably not employees of Meta made ads that contained AI-generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery in order to promote so-called nudify or undressing apps, and then Meta ran them".

More than 50 image and video ads containing abusive content were recently discovered in Meta’s ad library by researchers at the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), with the listings showing that some ads linked out to so-called nudify or undressing apps. Meta’s ad library—a transparency tool that catalogues ads displayed on the company’s platforms—shows the ads running across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and/or Threads. The findings are the second time in recent weeks that paid ads linked to child sexual abuse material have been found on Meta’s platforms.

Soooooo... Working as intended.

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Crazy if they publicize csam with no consequence