Dave said that after the boy complained about views, he set up a roughly $20 promotion and talked through the steps aloud: set a budget, select who sees the ads, hit run. The boy then created his own campaigns, and Dave said his son did not understand the $20 as a limit. “The credit card, it just says approved every single time,”
YT has a simplified interface to promote videos. It’s not as complicated as a regular Google ad campaign setup
Don’t even need an LLM to set this up. It’s not hard, and it sounds like the dad helped and agreed to one 20$ spend which recurred into a massive ad spend.
something tells me the dad is the one is behind the channel and used his son as a shield. a 9year old isnt going to know how to set up a ad campaign.
Pff. Kid probably has 8 years of experience using YouTube
YT has a simplified interface to promote videos. It’s not as complicated as a regular Google ad campaign setup
With LLMs a 9 year old could manage. It’s made accessible anything to anyone. Like vibe coding to untrained programmers
Don’t even need an LLM to set this up. It’s not hard, and it sounds like the dad helped and agreed to one 20$ spend which recurred into a massive ad spend.
Or gives the illusion of being accessible anyway, see end result.
Something tells me you didn’t read the article, because this is explained in the article.
Something should also tell you that there’s a direct incentive for companies to make it as easy as possible to spend money on their services.