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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

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tedivm · 1790700196 · focus · HN ↗
ProPublica had one of their reports work with gambling addition experts to see how DraftKings would respond to someone presenting signs of a gambling problem. It's a hell of a read, and makes it clear that this company is full of people with absolutely no ethics whatsoever.
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gamblin...
1. tonyhart7 · 1790701358 · focus · HN ↗
  fork found in kitchen
  I mean what do we expect ???? "the house" is playing fair ????
  we literally have mobile game that have "gacha" which is full blown gamble and we pretend that the actual "online casino" is to play moral, ethics or fairness ??
  we literally past that point ages ago
  1. autoexec · 1790701872 · focus · HN ↗
    Not just mobile games. Roblox is basically an online child casino, powered by child laborers being compensated in Robux scrip. Fortnite isn't much better. We'd do a lot of good by regulating these games better too. The gambling addicts who got hooked with these games will move on to DraftKings when they're older. DraftKings knows this is their pipeline and has been investing in esports and video games like Call of Duty and establishing partnerships with Riot Games and Activision Blizzard.
  2. DANmode · 1790703493 · focus · HN ↗
    “Let the passed be past” is ironically sage.
    tonyhart7 · 1790704038 · focus · HN ↗
    You and the people who downvote me literally miss an entire point
    stackskipton · 1790704397 · focus · HN ↗
    What is your point? Bad thing happened in the past, we should continue to let bad thing happen?
    Most people find current system of gambling from phone to be too much. Forcing people to physical location and limiting advertising can be good harm reduction without causing increase in crime.
    tonyhart7 · 1790739404 · focus · HN ↗
    never ever I wrote that somewhere that "we must let them"
    how can you so dumb ????
    DANmode · 1790739854 · focus · HN ↗
    You didn’t notice none of the other comments here look or sound like this?
    tonyhart7 · 1790743076 · focus · HN ↗
    well you can literally just see the replies of mine
    my point is, we literally have a bigger problem than some "online casino" doing online casino shit
    this is happening on game, apps, web etc
    at what point people realize that this is just the way it is and don't take action like forever ?????
    there is literally countless story how people get messed up financially on internet and that is only scratch of surface
    stackskipton · 1790799448 · focus · HN ↗
    That's your opinion, mine is different.
    Yes, loot boxes and other types of casino games throughout the economy are a problem. Online Sports Betting has taken a small problem and caused it to be a big one so it's much more visible in public eye.
    If we regulate sports betting, we should probably regulate loot boxes in FIFA 27 as well.

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