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Facebook Marketplace Enters The AI Thirst-Trap Era
Facebook Marketplace Enters The AI Thirst-Trap Era
Searching Facebook Marketplace in the AI era has revealed a strange new phenomenon: sellers are running product photos through chatbots or image generators to insert scantily clad women into listings.
This marketing ploy seemingly bets that thirst-trap imagery will boost clicks and improve the chances of selling whatever item is listed on the online marketplace.
"This dude on FB Marketplace has multiple listings for heavy Caterpillar industrial equipment superimposed with AI-generated female models. Must have industry-leading click-through rates," journalist Trung Phan wrote on X.
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“4 percentage points ahead of the Union, 4 out of 5 citizens dissatisfied with Merz: We no longer have time for...
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Jane Street Accused Of Using Terra Telegram Backchannel Before UST Crash
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Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com,
A newly unsealed court filing in the Terraform Labs bankruptcy case alleges Jane Street used a private Telegram channel with former Terraform intern Bryce Pratt to obtain nonpublic information before the collapse of TerraUSD. Pratt is currently a systems developer at Jane Street.
The channel, called “Bryce’s Secret,” allegedly gave the quantitative trading firm a backchannel to Terraform insiders as Jane Street unwound exposure to TerraUSD (UST) shortly before the algorithmic stablecoin lost its dollar...
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