Updates on TikTok
Every AI story we track on TikTok: 47 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.
Pulled from 125 sources
Today's stories
This week
Social Media2 min read
Grotesque Engagement Farmers Are Using AI to Manipulate Real Arrest Footage So That Cops Grope Women
Futurism
This month
Social Media10 min read
GLP-1 Apps Are Using Sobbing AI-Generated Women To Market Their Products
Futurism
Business & Enterprise2 min read
TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years
The Next Web
Consumer Tech7 min read
Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don’t Have the “Annoying Blinking Light” When They Record
Futurism
Shopping & eCommerce3 min read
TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
Covered by 3 sources
Society & Culture3 min read
Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying
Futurism
Cybersecurity3 min read
AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules
Covered by 4 sources
Social Media4 min read
Influencers Are Using Meta’s AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public
Futurism
Society & Culture5 min read
The guy who wrote the surprisingly sexual toy pumpkin song wants you to know it wasn't AI
Business Insider
TikTok Billionaire Zhang Yiming Overtakes Gautam Adani as Asia’s Richest Person
Covered by 2 sources
Anthropic Puts Claude On Small Business Sales After 900,000 Installs
Covered by 3 sources
Consumer Tech3 min read
Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo
TechCrunch
Music & Audio8 min read
‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn
The Guardian
Social Media3 min read
US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests
The Guardian
Finance5 min read
TikTok star Vivian Tu is bringing her ‘Your Rich BFF’ persona to a new finance app
Business Insider
Social Media5 min read
A Venture Capitalist Spent $100 Creating A Fake Sorority Girl. TikTok Didn’t Notice.
Forbes
AI Research2 min read
ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models to protect Hollywood IPs
Covered by 2 sources
Video Generation5 min read
Disney's latest TikTok deal shows it's betting on real creators instead of AI-generated videos
TechRadar
Society & Culture1 min read
LessWrong vs. TikTok: Tips for capturing attention in a non-rational space
LessWrong
Video Generation3 min read
Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise2 min read
OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere
The Next Web
Healthcare4 min read
Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
Covered by 2 sources
Marketing & Sales3 min read
Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
The Next Web
Video Generation2 min read
Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
The Next Web
Public Sector4 min read
Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix
The Next Web
Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music
TechCrunch
Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre
The Next Web
Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn
The Next Web
The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
The Next Web
EU says TikTok must disable ‘addictive’ features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
TechCrunch
That's everything we have on TikTok right now