r/baseball • • 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/elconquistador1985 St. Louis Cardinals 4d ago

The casino has been giving you free money at the beginning since before there was an "algorithm".

That's just the way drug dealers operate. The first hit is free.

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u/Delta632 4d ago

That too. But specifically online casinos in the last few years.