Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm.
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People bitch about the algorithm but it's actually pretty nice having things you're more likely to enjoy come to you than having to try and hunt them down with nothing but a very poor search function.
I want it to recommend me shit I would probably enjoy; I just don't want it to recommend me shit in an attempt to brainwash me.
I want to like Loops, but it's 90% random nature shots that don't need to be videos and finding anything else is a PITA.
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TikTok’s valuation remains contested, with estimates varying from US$20 billion ($31.8 billion) to more than US$300 billion, depending on whether its algorithm is factored in.
The algorithm increases the price by more than $280 billion. And what kind of algorithm? One that changes its high based on how you interact with it, to always try and get your dopamine flowing to keep you interacting longer. If it were a real substance, it would be the most addictive drug to ever exist.
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Loops...kind of sucks. I get the point of it, but I tried using it like 15 minutes a day for a couple weeks to get used to it, but the features are lacking and the content is...well it's filled with people who would abandon tiktok and other apps, so, it's kind of boring.
Not in a 'there's no brainrot' way, in a 'this is the third video in a row of just random AI slop and then it's just some dude filming a tree for 20 seconds'.
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TikTok’s valuation remains contested, with estimates varying from US$20 billion ($31.8 billion) to more than US$300 billion, depending on whether its algorithm is factored in.
The algorithm increases the price by more than $280 billion. And what kind of algorithm? One that changes its high based on how you interact with it, to always try and get your dopamine flowing to keep you interacting longer. If it were a real substance, it would be the most addictive drug to ever exist.
Wtf, do proprietary algorithms actually cost this much?
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They've admitted it was about gaza
Have they? Where?
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Wtf, do proprietary algorithms actually cost this much?
I mean, have you seen how effective Tik Toks one is?
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Have they? Where?
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Controlling people's media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.
I can't think of any app developer or political party who would do that.
(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
Both can be bad.
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so basically taxpayers will be paying china for an app that only 2% of the country uses
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Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
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I'm sorry but you're 100% going to be disappointed
If I find out Lemmy.world has a mouse favicon I'm going to be disappointed
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Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
Because it's been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.
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Because it's been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.
Huh. Is that good or bad?
I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
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Huh. Is that good or bad?
I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
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TikTok’s valuation remains contested, with estimates varying from US$20 billion ($31.8 billion) to more than US$300 billion, depending on whether its algorithm is factored in.
The algorithm increases the price by more than $280 billion. And what kind of algorithm? One that changes its high based on how you interact with it, to always try and get your dopamine flowing to keep you interacting longer. If it were a real substance, it would be the most addictive drug to ever exist.
You could argue if xai paid xitter 45 billion in their latest
money laundering operationacquisition, then TikTok is worth at least ten xitters -
Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
I believe it is part of a strategy known as indoctrination
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Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
tiktok is used by genz and alpha alot, it helps that they would be the next generation of a dying GOP voters which are primarily boomers, Xers, and some milleneals.
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Huh. Is that good or bad?
I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
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I wouldnt trust the words of a Palantir exec if they said the sky was blue, but even accepting what they say, its just that the hamas attacks gave the ban impetus to move forwards. By his own words the ban already had bipartesan support and executive approval before that.
The headline that it was "about" Isreal rather than China is a massive reach.
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