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Reddit embracing all out enshittification
(arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts
"We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don't usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search," ReplyGuy's website reads.
It should be illegal to misrepresent an ad as a post or comment. This exact thing should be against the law. The boundary between advertising and social media is so thin at this point. It has to stop. It's dangerous for consumers. Corporations should have to clearly label themselves at every turn. The usage of AI to intermingle advertising and social media should be blanket illegal.
The law requires YouTubers to identify sponsored segments. I don't see why that shouldn't also be applied to social media posts.
The law does apply to social media posts.
The social media company has to mark sponsored content and give users the means to do so themselves (when the partnership is between the user and a third party rather than the social media company).
Unfortunately it’s hard to prove and profitable to lie.
social media corporations can be made liable under the law, well how about here in Lemmy, where the instance owner may not even know that companies are creating bots and posting discrete advertisements, or hiring trolls/shills to advertise for them?
Is it difficult to prove that's what's explicitly being sold in this case?
It's hard since it could theoretically also be an actual user who used that website themself.
In which countries, though? That's a key point that seems missed from a lot of responses discussing "the law".
Laws vary quite significantly from nation to nation, and without that key context, there's not much that can be garnered.
The US, for one, which pretty much makes it apply universally anywhere on YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, as they're all US companies.
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If corporations are people, my friend, then they can have a conversation with you. What’s the harm in that?
Still waiting on the first corporation to get thrown in jail
It's already illegal in the EU, several influencers have had trouble with the law because of this in my country (France)
This is what people like Musk are concerned about when they claim to be "free speech absolutists". This is where their concern for that freedom begins and ends: their ability to use it to profit.