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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. groestl · 1790702969 · focus · HN ↗
  IMHO one shouldn't expect a company to have any ethics to achieve a positive outcome for society. This needs to be baked into the rules (taxes, regulation, ...), so the ethical behavior becomes the rational behavior.
  1. slashdave · 1790710425 · focus · HN ↗
    So, you want government to decide what is good and bad behavior?
    goatlover · 1790711040 · focus · HN ↗
    I do want the government to protect people from predatory and exploitative behavior.
    groestl · 1790711620 · focus · HN ↗
    I think it's not a matter of want. The goverment makes the rules, and the rules decide the emergent behavior of people, in companies and elsewhere. Whether their emergent behavior is good or bad, whatever that means, is a result of the way that your particular country selects the goverment. Mine is probably different than your's.
    slashdave · 1790821731 · focus · HN ↗
    That is not the purpose of laws
    groestl · 1791061210 · focus · HN ↗
    It might not be the purpose, but it's the effect of laws.
    thunderfork · 1790718832 · focus · HN ↗
    We do this with laws already

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