GnuLinuxDude

That too.

TikTok didn't create the ad. This would be obvious to you if you read even a tiny bit of the article.

MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, confirmed that the ad wasn't genuine in a social-media post.

"Lots of people are getting this deepfake scam ad of me… are social media platforms ready to handle the rise of AI deepfakes? This is a serious problem," he wrote.

When asked for comment, a TikTok spokesperson said the company removed the ad within a few hours of its posting and took down the account associated with it for policy violations.

On its ads policy page, TikTok said it prohibits "synthetic media that contains the likeness (visual or audio) of a real person." The company also blocks ads that include trademark infringements and other misuse of intellectual property. "Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that any synthetic media which contains a public figure has consent from the public figure to be used in an ad in this way," the company wrote.

Nor is that even the point, because the cost of generating deep fake AI videos is going down, meaning anybody can do this.

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.

I had this game originally on some CD with a bunch of Apogee games. This was before I had developed the concept of money, so I didn't know how to get more levels that were teased at the end of the shareware, but it was nevertheless my favorite game at the time.

The potential of an unlimited spam generator hasn't yet been fully realized but I think we'll get a great taste in the next year.

The only noteworthy thing to know is that we Americans certainly wouldn't try anything like this. Only the other would.

I remember ios13 was so buggy on release. I was genuinely remorseful for upgrading to it, and it taught me to never upgrade a major version from Apple until months have passed.

You can't trust the beneficence of Apple. Right to repair to them actually means Right to sell repair kits with only Genuine Parts exclusively sourced from Apple. It's just another profit center for them.

In computer science curricula there may be an ethics in computer science class. They won't teach you how unethical it is to exploit the labor of others for your personal gain. It's not designed to make you think.

I unironically love your reply, because there are like 20 ways it can be read and replied to. That's a good one.

I'm just taking a moment to remember the massive smear campaign against Corbyn, including the centrists in Labour working to undermine him during their election, and how ultimately it led to this dumbass taking the reins instead.

My eternal wish has been for Paintnet to be on Linux. Pinta is pretty good but Paintnet is actually good.