They know their audience

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.

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 it's best, and they only proved it let through fifty odd such images. They 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 obvious.

Wait, does Zuck fuck kids now too?

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.

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?

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.