TikTok is launching a new in-app hub to help you spot AI-generated content as it cracks down on AI slop.
Will Farrell, the chief security officer for TikTok’s US operation, will appear before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on September 15 to answer questions about Beijing’s influence over the app, Reuters reported. He will be th…
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like…
As deepfakes spread, TikTok joins YouTube in giving creators tools to detect and report unauthorized AI likenesses of themselves.
TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with “some” US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool […]
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safe…
Reelful is an AI app that builds finished reels from your photos and clips, complete with voiceovers, captions, and music.
The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wedn…
TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its European hub in Dublin, according to an email to staff seen by Bloomberg. For the people affected, that number is not abstract. The proposed redundancies would fall on roughly a tenth of the company’s…
A new study tested 86 child safety features across TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, and found that more than half were broken, buried, or missing entirely.