How China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’ By October 2018, ByteDance was the world’s most valuable startup, with a valuation of $75 billion. Four years later, ByteDance is worth $300 billion. TikTok is expected to reach 1.8 billion users globally by the end of the year. And a quarter of American adults under 30 get their news from the social-media app. There's a good reason for this success. TikTok has developed one of the most powerful machine-learning algorithms ever—one that is able to reveal people’s unknown desires to themselves. Every day, every hour, every waking minute, TikTok is hoovering up seemingly infinite bits of information about its users—their tastes, hobbies, political views, sexual preferences, their facial structure, the sound of their voice. Ostensibly, all this is meant to provide a better product. It should also be noted that this information can be used for spying, influencing millions of users—even waging war. Every time we swipe for the next video, every time we post videos of our own, we are helping the world’s most sophisticated police state learn more about us.
Facebook and Google did and do the exact same thing even so much as metering the flow of your ‘likes’ to effect dopamine and serotonin. People Voluntarily give up all their info down to their most intimate secrets and thus giving AI all the info needed to determine anything from login passwords to sexuality.
Harder to justify doing it to Facebook, google or Instagram as they are American companies but TikTok should be banned in the US.
Well we’ve moved from blaming the “boob tube” to “video games” and now to “tik tok”. None of them the problem.
I believe this is a different problem. Not what the video is doing to the person in front of the video, but those behind it. and who said its not damaging to children’s development for them to watch violence and now porn?
And yet, Congress stands idly by. TikTok is a cancer spreading among our young people. It ought to be banned.
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