MrBeast called out TikTok for allowing a deepfake version of him hawking $2 iPhones to run wild on the app: 'This is a serious problem'
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As AI spreads, it brings new challenges for influencers like MrBeast and platforms like TikTok aiming to police unauthorized advertising.

TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’::As AI spreads, it brings new challenges for influencers like MrBeast and platforms like TikTok aiming to police unauthorized advertising.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
    602·
    1 year ago

    This is the entire basis of using an adblocker like ublock origin. It is purely defensive. You don’t know what an advertising (malvertising) network will deliver, and neither does the website you’re on (Tiktok, Google, Yahoo, eBay, etc etc etc). With generative AI and video ads and the lack of content checking on the advertising network this will just get worse and worse. I mean, why spend money on preventing this? The targeted ads and user data collection is where the money’s at, baby!

    Related note, installing uBO on my dad’s PC some 8 years ago was far more effective than any kind of virus scanner or whatever. Allowing commerce on the Internet was a mistake. That’s the root of all this bullshit, anyway.

    • Moneo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      1 year ago

      Fuck ads in general. I don’t care if they are legitimate or not I don’t want to be mentally assaulted every time I try to browse a website.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      Allowing commerce on the Internet was a mistake. That’s the root of all this bullshit, anyway.

      That’s more accurate.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        You can’t put everything back in Pandora’s Box. Right or wrong this is the world we live in. What is lacking is regulation. If left to their own devices we (royal) are shitheels. Unfortunately we (royal) are persistent shitheels which is why when we put in regulations we then strive to rip them out.

        • matter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Do you mean “we (humans)”? Because “the royal we” just means “I”. Like how the queen says “we are not amused” when they mean “I don’t like it”. Related to how in many European languages (including early-modern and older English) the plural is a polite form of address (like tu and vous in French, du and sie in German, thou and you in English)

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Honestly ads aren’t that bad when done right. For instance, the yellow pages had ads but they didn’t follow you wherever you went. We need ads that people want to look at. If I’m trying to find something g to buy I don’t mind looking at an ad. I just don’t want it to be everywhere and end up being malious

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        We need ads that people want to look at

        Welcome to the pro-data-collection team! We’re wildly unpopular online.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Although I’d say a good 99% of all ads are terrible, I have yet to find any that are absolutely egregious when visiting sites like FurAffinity. Totally depends on the site and what ad services they chose or are forced into if they have ads. Also where and they are placed.

    • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I never thought of it in security terms but that makes sense. If nothing else, having it installed makes for a better web experience.