Tik Tok není dobrá věc

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok

  • “It’s better to have young people as an early adopter, especially the teenagers in the U.S. Why? They [sic] got a lot of time.
  • Teenagers in the U.S. are a golden audience . . . . If you look at China, the teenage culture doesn’t exist — the teens are super busy in school studying for tests, so they don’t have the time and luxury to play social media apps.”
  • “The product in itself has baked into it compulsive use.
  • As expected, across most engagement metrics, the younger the user the better the performance.”
  • “Tiktok is particularly popular with younger users who are particularly sensitive to reinforcement in the form of social reward and have minimal ability to self-regulate effectively.”
  • TikTok’s success can largely be attributed to strong out of the box personalization and automation, which limits user agency[.]
  • Utah Brief (UT)
  • UT P. 4, PARA 11
  • Despite admitting internally that LIVE poses “cruel[]” risks to minors— encouraging “addiction and impulsive purchasing of virtual items,” leading to “financial harm,” and putting minors at “developmental risk”—TikTok continues to use manipulative features to increase the time and money users spend on the app. [This quote is referencing TikTok’s LIVE feature]
  • s “algorithm and shorter video formats” that “create continuous cycles of engagement.”

“can largely be attributed to strong . . .

personalization and automation, which limits user agency” 

and a “product experience utiliz[ing] many coercive design tactics,” including “numerous features”—like “[i]nfinite scroll, auto-play, constant notifications,” and 

“the ‘slot machine’ effect” (hrací automat)—that “can be considered manipulative.”

minors: “particularly sensitive to reinforcement in the form of social award,” have “minimal ability to self-regulate effectively,” and “do not have executive function to control their screen time.”

 TikTok admits that sexual exploitation and illegal activities on LIVE are “controversial” and worsened by its own monetization scheme. Despite acknowledging internally that “sexually suggestive LIVE content is on the rise,” TikTok refuses to warn consumers about these dangers. Instead, TikTok plans to “make better use of monetization methods such as gifting and subscription to gain revenue . . . .”

  • According to a presentation by the Trust and Safety group, “[u]sers are more likely to post comments than videos,” because about “42% [of users] are ‘comment only’ users[.]” – o dětským pornu apod…
  • PARA 317: But the vast majority of comments never go through human moderation. According to that same document, “Comments are increasing and manual coverage is disproportionately low.” In fact, “[h]uman moderation for comment review is at 0.25%.”

n early 2022, TikTok’s internal investigation of LIVE, called “Project Meramec,” revealed shocking findings. Hundreds of thousands of children between 13 and 15 years old were bypassing TikTok’s minimum age restrictions, hosting LIVE sessions, and receiving concerning messages from adults. The project confirmed that LIVE “enable[d the] exploitation of live hosts” and that TikTok profited significantly from “transactional gifting” involving nudity and sexual activity, all facilitated by TikTok’s virtual currency system.

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