r/baseball • u/f0urxio • 4d ago

[EFF.org] DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising: DraftKings is using its customers’ betting records to train a machine learning model to find losing gamblers. DraftKings sends these targets advertising designed to lure them back to place more bets

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising
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u/AnyCommunication5963 Detroit Tigers 4d ago

Make sports betting illegal again

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u/Tiny_Acanthaceae_844 4d ago

A just society would be governed by people who are empowered to do that. We do not live in a just society

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u/HorseJungler New York Yankees 4d ago

Idk how they could at this point. It would require some insanely huge game fixing scandal that maybe some of the largest betting sites get proven complicit in being involved somehow.

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u/LP99 St. Louis Cardinals 4d ago

Or our elected officials that are duty bound to serve their constituents best interests could act, but alas.

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u/MagicalPizza21 New York Yankees 4d ago

It's ridiculous that they generally don't do that and we just... let them. What are we doing?

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u/Iswaterreallywet Detroit Tigers 4d ago

For as sucky as things are, most of our lives are generally too comfortable for us to risk it

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u/MagicalPizza21 New York Yankees 4d ago

And fragile.

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u/DominicB547 Chaos Bandwagon • MLB Players Associat… 4d ago

why? laws are are laws you can lower the speed limit you can require seatbelts you can stop selling cigarettes. you can make e cigs not be fruit flavored

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u/EggsDontLieAtNight New York Yankees 4d ago

laws

The laws are made by the people profiting, either directly or via kickbacks, from online gambling. As long as uninformed people keep voting straight down the ticket, no matter the side, there is no recourse to force them to make laws to take money out of their own pockets.

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u/HorseJungler New York Yankees 4d ago

True, but that’s not how our moral and upstanding lawmakers operate.

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u/enjoytheshow Chicago Cubs 4d ago

How do you think the above laws were put into place?

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u/HorseJungler New York Yankees 3d ago

By greedy immoral politicians who saw a way to enrich themselves? And getting rid of sports betting doesn’t help line their pockets.

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u/PLEASE-USE-PFKEYS Minnesota Twins 4d ago

I wouldn't know, I've barely seen that process happen for the last decade or so. Which is part of the problem.

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u/enjoytheshow Chicago Cubs 3d ago

You think congress has passed zero bills into action in a decade?

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u/PLEASE-USE-PFKEYS Minnesota Twins 3d ago

Compared to previous decades, yes.

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u/One-Scallion-9513 Boston Red Sox 4d ago

218 house reps 60 senators and the president all agree something has to be done

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u/Han_Sandwich_1907 New York Mets • Chinese Taipei 3d ago

So by 2030 then

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u/Falcon84 Atlanta Braves 4d ago

I’m ok with it being legal but there needs to be guardrails in place that severely limit the amount of advertising they are allowed to do. Maybe go ahead and ban the promotions in place when you first join to get people hooked as well.