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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 $20 (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

With LLMs a 9 year old could manage. It's made accessible anything to anyone. Like vibe coding to untrained programmers

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Or gives the illusion of being accessible anyway, see end result.

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