Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft, altering people’s social media posts to sell erectile dysfunction pills or praise Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas

  • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    541·
    10 months ago

    Google has decided to build a platform where advertisers are minimally vetted. They’re intentionally taking on the risk and should be liable.

    If you decide to increase attendance in your club by getting rid of the bouncer, expect the fire marshal and cops to issue fines when your place is overcrowded and full of minors.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      This. The lack of vetting sucks and it goes both ways. Sometimes the algorithm incorrectly flags perfectly legitimate content as fraudulent with no way to recover from that.

      • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        There absolutely is though. Implement a dispute process that loops in an actual human once a detection is triggered. Will that cost a lot of money, and require a lot of people? Yea. But that’s just the cost of doing business at the scale of a company lime Google, it (should be) their duty.