As should the many stars who knowingly allow themselves, their celebrity & popularity to be used to promote gambling apps in TV commercials. They are part of the problem.
#GamblingAddiction
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Can't believe stars like Jimmy Fallon are hawking gambling apps on TV.
What? He's not making enough $ at his day job (I know, I know - it's an expression)?
These apps create even more gambling addiction. Just b/c it's not sports #gambling doesn't make it less addictive.
NIH PubMed link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38311694/#:~:text=Odds%20of%20gambling%20via%20a,%3B%20Substance%20use%3B%20Young%20adults
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PubMedInternet, App-Based, and Casino Gambling: Associations Between Modality, Problem Gambling, and Substance Use - PubMedTechnology-based gambling prevalence is not well understood since relevant questions are not included in health and disease surveillance studies. The current study sought to estimate the prevalence of internet-based and smartphone app-based gambling, along with casino gambling, in a sample of U.S. y …
it’s increasingly clear that farming gambling addicts is the ultimate business model
https://archive.ph/ashGK
Regarding the last couple boosts: among other downsides, LLMs encourage people to take long-term risks for perceived, but not always actual, short-term gains. They bet the long-term value of their education on a chance at short-term grade inflation, or they bet the long-term security and maintainability of their software codebase on a chance at short-term productivity gains. My read is that more and more data is suggesting that these are bad bets for most people.
In that respect they're very much like gambling. The messianic fantasies some ChatGPT users have been experiencing fits this picture as well.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #ChatGPT #GPT #Gemini #GamblingAddiction #nihilism
In that respect they're very much like gambling. The messianic fantasies some ChatGPT users have been experiencing fits this picture as well.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #ChatGPT #GPT #Gemini #GamblingAddiction #nihilism
The Harvard Gazette: Gambling problems are mushrooming. Panel says we need to act now.. “Problems with gambling issues have surged over the past half-dozen years with the rise of legalized sports betting and 24-hour online casino games. It’s gotten to the point where some researchers say something needs to be done now — and there are remedies.”
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Same in Brazil that is now among the world's top six sports betting markets.
Too many of my friends' children have had gambling problems...
Sports Betting Will Do to America What It’s Done to Australia
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/australia-sports-betting-addiction-murdoch/
jacobin.comSports Betting Will Do to America What It’s Done to AustraliaAustralia is the canary in the coal mine for sports betting, and Americans should pay attention to the destruction the industry has caused.
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(RESIST) @danbrotherston @wollman @RM_Transit the #gambling is going to happen no matter what. I'd rather have state or provincial authorities regulating and monitoring it locally rather than have internet gambling "regulated" by with tax diverted to #Jersey / #Guernsey / #IsleOfMan or whatever.