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Scrolled past this headline and audibly groaned in disgust. Husband asked why so I read it to him.
Him: What is with these creephounds?!? Me: They creeps!
There is this repeating ad on Sync for Lemmy which pisses me off to no end. They are for various women's jewelry and the angle of the pictures make the image look very different than what it actually is.
Stopped using it recently just now because of this.
Voyager is better anyway.
Yeah that's my preferred app now.
I think I've seen that one.
I hope you both mean Facebook and not the targeted men.
I very rarely use them but when I do I am targeted non-stop by FB and especially Insta with pictures of young girls. It's absolutely disgusting and embarrassing (if someone sees it.) The search page is the worst. I don't click on any of them, I scroll past them as fast as possible in my feed, I don't like or follow anything like that, and yet it never stops. And that's one of the main reasons I won't use them other than to communicate with specific family members or friends.
I mean if grown men are looking for 13 year old school girls to talk to, I don't feel bad for them if they get busted. However, the creeps that used those photos aren't really much different, and it seems as though this was just literally a case of Meta trying to entice adult men to connect with young girls.
One of the mothers who had her child's picture used without consent:
These are the people who want to strip away regulations. The party of if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Just don't ask us any questions about what we're hiding because it's classified.
We were talking about Meta scrolling through the IG accounts of parents with teenagers going backs to school, selecting and saving pictures without consent or notification. The thought of somebody (even if it is AI) creeping on you or your child's account, selecting a photo that they judge suits their needs, saving it to God knows where, and using it as bait to target men who they suspect have similar taste to their own, and are looking for kids to prey on, is not exactly reassuring to say the least.
Even if this was a case of trying to nab somebody who has nefarious intent (which there is no indication of) normally they hire adults that look young to bust people like that. And even then, between AI and Photoshop, I am highly suspicious there would be any legitimate reason they would need to be looking for actual kids to use as bait. And even if any of that was actually the case, there is no way in hell they couldn't have at least asked for permission instead of burying it in their terms of agreement. This is exploitation of children. Given the world we live in, and the people we all know know were involved in the tech industry and also clients of Epstein, I would be freaking the fuck out of that was my kid.