<story><title>Washington&apos;s Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user</title><url>https://mynorthwest.com/3956403/rantz-washingtons-lottery-ai-porn-user/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perihelions</author><text>I think regardless of the specifics, using generative AI to manipulate people into gambling is predatory and immoral. It&amp;#x27;s psychological abuse to manipulate people into dwelling on how their lives are awful, and on how purchasing the advertised product could fix all their lifelong problems (which it almost certainly won&amp;#x27;t).&lt;p&gt;Some of the worst &amp;quot;abuses of AI&amp;quot; are going to be things we&amp;#x27;ve already fully normalized—we just fail to reflect adequately on our culture and in what ways it&amp;#x27;s broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>While you&amp;#x27;re right, the AI part is almost irrelevant. I think it&amp;#x27;s immoral that states can advertise their lotteries full-stop.&lt;p&gt;True, the AI part will make this worse, especially if states get into really targeted advertisements. But the morality line is already being crossed daily.</text></comment>
<story><title>Washington&apos;s Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user</title><url>https://mynorthwest.com/3956403/rantz-washingtons-lottery-ai-porn-user/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perihelions</author><text>I think regardless of the specifics, using generative AI to manipulate people into gambling is predatory and immoral. It&amp;#x27;s psychological abuse to manipulate people into dwelling on how their lives are awful, and on how purchasing the advertised product could fix all their lifelong problems (which it almost certainly won&amp;#x27;t).&lt;p&gt;Some of the worst &amp;quot;abuses of AI&amp;quot; are going to be things we&amp;#x27;ve already fully normalized—we just fail to reflect adequately on our culture and in what ways it&amp;#x27;s broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdjon</author><text>I really want to know who green lit this after seeing all of the controversy with Google and was like, yeah we won&amp;#x27;t have a problem like that billion dollar company.&lt;p&gt;There are already a lot of sleazy ads that I see for gambling and the lottery. But this is extremely predatory since it personifies the possible winning.&lt;p&gt;This should be straight up illegal.</text></comment>