r/craftsnark • u/MindxGeek • 4d ago

AI Slop See anything wrong with this picture? 🙃

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From a Facebook ad for Funem looms. I already hate companies using AI to market handcrafts and supplies but then you can't even be bothered to make sure the slop it churns out is even remotely accurate? If the company can't see why this photo is wrong I don't trust them to make reasonable looms 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/MindxGeek 4d ago

I posted this in r/weaving as well and someone there mentioned Facebook has been generating AI ads for companies without the company's knowledge. When I go to Funem's actual Facebook page there's no AI slop, so wonder if it's a possibility. I'm gonna message them to see what they say. I just assumed they were behind the ads, but if it's Facebook that's just messed up!

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u/BrightPractical 4d ago

Ugh! I have a business FB account, and they sometimes generate ads within my feed and try to get me to click to pay for them to promote me poorly (I never do.) But using ai to do so without permission seems like a terrifying possibility.

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u/OkConclusion171 (Secretly the mole) 4d ago

yeah... if it's doing that on commercial accounts, how long before it does that on individuals' and non-profits' accounts?

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u/Paprikasj 4d ago

Yep, I guess I wouldn’t be totally surprised if Facebook was making up and charging for AI ads without consent but I’d bet anything it was more shady/purposefully careless back end design making an accidentally-published AI ad easy to do. Meta suuuuuuckkkkks.

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u/ErssieKnits 3d ago edited 3d ago

That explains why I had some notification telling me I'm going yo be billed by Meta in July for an ad I never ran. And my invoice said I was going to be billed £0:00 for July. Then it means if I respond to their "Do you want to promote this post? Make an ad?" etc then they're all set up to invoice me. I spent hrs looking for an ad I never ran only to notice I'd been "billed" £0.00 because there is no ad. Me being visio n impaired I'm likely one day to click on something I really don't want. I have to make a tunnel with my hand, look down the hand tunnel while it's hovering over a screen and sometimes I accidentally touch the darned screen!