Meta Will Enforce Ban On AI-Powered Political Ads In Every Nation, No Exceptions

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Meta says its generative artificial intelligence (AI) advertising tools cannot be used to power political campaigns anywhere globally, with access blocked for ads targeting specific services and issues. The social media giant said earlier this month that advertisers will be barred from using generative AI tools in its Ads Manager tool to produce ads for politics, elections, housing, employment, credit, or social issues. Ads related to health, pharmaceuticals, and financial services also are not allowed access to the generative AI features. This policy will apply globally, as Meta continues to test its generative AI ads creation tools, confirmed Dan Neary, Meta's Asia-Pacific vice president. "This approach will allow us to better understand potential risks and build the right safeguards for the use of generative AI in ads that relate to potentially sensitive topics in regulated industries," said Neary.

Meta will also ban sarcasm, look like The Onion

[sinkskinkshrieks]

Good fucking luck proving an unknowable with evidence. This is just another way to silence individuals and groups they don't agree with arbitrarily.

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[taustin]

And, given that you apparently can't stop talking about him, he'd be right.

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[xeoron]

Best to ban all political ads. Problem solved.

uh-huh...

[SeaFox]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Unenforcable

[Dwedit]

We can't even detect when text is written by an AI. There is no way this can possibly be enforced.

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[suutar]

It says they won't let you use _Meta's_ tools. Probably if you select a restricted category the checkbox or whatever for "have an AI help me write this" gets disabled.

Re: Unenforcable

[guruevi]

Itâ(TM)s easy: if it is something Meta doesnâ(TM)t like to see the light of day, such as video of their allies cutting babies heads off and burning people alive, that will get big warnings that it is considered AI generated until enough people believe it to be so.

We let big corporation with government granted monopolies determine what is true and supposed liberals are cheering them on.

But kiddy porn ok

[elcor]

As long as the Zucks get their stem cell injections, all is fine.

But stock footage will be ok

[RogueWarrior65]

Cobbled together taken-out-of-context footage will be perfectly acceptable.