Showing posts with label tiktok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tiktok. Show all posts

Friday, February 20, 2026

Video game publisher says TikTok Is using GenAI to create misleading and sexualized ads for its games without permission

IGN:

The AI-"enhanced" versions, which appear on TikTok as if posted directly from the official Finji account

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The offending image depicts an edited version of the official cover art, the original version of which is pictured above. In the seemingly AI-edited version, the main character June (center in the image above) is depicted alone, but the image extends down to her ankles. She is depicted with a bikini bottom, impossibly large hips and thighs, and boots that rise up over her knees

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Finji also says it is unable to view or edit the AI-generated versions of its own ads, and is only aware of them via numerous comments on the ads as well as users in its official Discord reporting the problem and sharing screenshots

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Since this incident took place, Finji staff have made efforts to follow up and get answers, only to be shut down by TikTok support repeatedly

Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.

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— Finji (@finjico.bsky.social) February 20, 2026 at 5:16 AM


Posting this here for reasons 😒 If you happen to see any Finji ads that look distinctly UN-Finji-like, send me a screencap. If you are someone who writes intelligently about something like "massive company running ai versions of paid ads without small company's consent" idk, maybe reach out.

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— Bex (@bexsaltsman.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Funny article about Chinese brands on Tiktok being mystified by comments from Western shitposters

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One of these manufacturers is a company called Donghua Jinlong, which is headquartered in Hebei province about 200 miles from Beijing. It sells “high quality industrial grade glycine,” a type of nutritional additive that evidently sounds silly and abstract to people who never need to think about how processed food is made. Donghua Jinglong and its glycine have become a relatively big meme on TikTok, Instagram, and X 
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Donghua Jinlong itself, however, doesn’t seem to have any idea what’s going on. People in the comments keep begging it to make official merch, but the company doesn’t understand why anyone would want a sweatshirt or t-shirt with the name of an industrial manufacturer on it. Shitposters have also started referencing the Donghua Jinlong meme in the comments of videos from other Chinese factories.

A company called HengYuan, for example, posted a video of what can only be described as a machine for filling Tide Pods, and one of the top comments is someone asking “Could you pack food grade glycine in this?”


@gangstasportivik They’ve got their own core tech with a whopping 31 patents under their belt and a whole lot of production experience #mulldog #glycine #trustworthy ♬ High Quality Industrial Grade Glycine - Гангста Спортивик




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Friday, January 27, 2023

Julia Fox apologized for being unaware of the secret meaning TikTok users have given the word "mascara"

If you don't want to be caught making such a mistake, you better educate yourself:
TikTok, notorious for its scattershot moderation, uses algorithms which censor content containing certain words and phrases. This leads to users keeping one step ahead of the algorithms by resorting to code words, such as “seggs” in place of sex, or “unalive” in place of suicide.

As the algorithm inevitably catches on to the code word, creators will pivot again, and use another word in its place; the evasive tactic is known as “algospeak,” and is changing the way we communicate online, and sometimes, sparking heated misunderstandings.

This constant gaming of the algorithm leads to increasingly abstract phrases being adopted as code words; some creators have been using “mascara” as a euphemism for
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

The Verge used Tiktok's text-to-image AI generator to create troubling images

Verge:
The limitations of TikTok’s model may well be intentional, though. First, more advanced models require greater computing power, which would be expensive and resource-intensive for the company to implement. Secondly, TikTok has more than a billion users, and giving all these individuals the power to create photorealistic images of anything they can imagine would almost certainly produce some troubling results.

For example, we tested the models ability to create nudity and gore
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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Coal miners use a skilift to enter the mine?

@cyclemoonchallenge

#fyp #coalworker #work

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@cyclemoonchallenge

#fyp #coalworker #work

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@cyclemoonchallenge

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@cyclemoonchallenge

#fyp #coalworker #work

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@cyclemoonchallenge

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@cyclemoonchallenge

#fyp #coalworker #work

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Friday, September 24, 2021

"Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager."

Verge:

Online research makes it so much easier. You program a survey... you put it online, and within a day, you have 1,000 responses,” [the director of the Behavioral Lab at the Stanford School of Business] told The Verge. “That changed the face of social science.”

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The [platform Prolific] offers more transparency, promises to treat survey participants more ethically, and promises higher-quality research subjects than alternative platforms like Mechanical Turk.

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The July 23rd video is short and simple. It opens with recent Florida high school graduate and self-described “teen author” ... sitting in her bedroom and smiling at the camera.

“Welcome to side hustles I recommend trying — part one,” she says in the video, pointing users to the website Prolific.co. “Basically, it’s a bunch of surveys for different amounts of money and different amounts of time.”

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In the days and weeks after [the teen author] posted her video, researchers scrambled to figure out what was happening to their studies. 

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Monday, September 20, 2021

T-shirt and helmet based on "Detroit Lines" rebrand

Three of Emily Zugay's logo redesign tiktoks:
@emilyzugay

Putting my degree to use

♬ original sound - Emily’sTikTok.edu


@emilyzugay

Reply to @willie3341 easy

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@emilyzugay

Reply to @adobe here you go

♬ original sound - Emily’sTikTok.edu


The Lions' social team knew a winner when they saw it:

@detroitlions

Reply to @emilyzugay Safe to say your redesign was a huge hit 😌 #DetroitLions #OnePride #nfl

♬ original sound - Emily’sTikTok.edu


@schoolpride #stitch with @detroitlions @emilyzugay ♬ original sound - SchoolPride
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Friday, August 20, 2021

She has the rings of power shaved into her hair; A treasure-hunting adventure story told in a Tiktok; Gelatinous Cube sticker






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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Impressive Tiktok collaboration; Ominous entrance; 3d printable HK-47













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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Some sea shanties were elaborate diss tracks; Turning pop songs into sea shanties; Are you on Sea Shanty Tiktok or Driver's License Tiktok?




























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Gideon and Harrow fan art; Strange sculpture identified; Clerverly edited Tiktok









"Caged man sings"







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Sunday, January 3, 2021

Tiktok's automatic translator transforms nonsense syllables into disturbing phrases


Here's a 2018 article from Vice, when Google Translate was observed doing something similar:
Type the word “dog” into Google Translate 19 times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious prophecy.

“Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve,” it reads. “We are experiencing characters and a dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus' return.”

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a senior scientist at BBN Technologies who works on machine translation, agreed that strange outputs are probably due to Google Translate’s algorithm looking for order in chaos. He also pointed out that the languages that generate the strangest results—Somali, Hawaiian and Maori—have smaller bodies of translated text than more widely spoken languages like English or Chinese. As a result, he said, it’s possible that Google used religious texts like the Bible, which has been translated into many languages, to train its model in those languages, resulting in the religious content.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

TikTok is banning multi level marketers

TikTok:

Frauds and scams

We do not permit anyone to exploit our platform to take advantage of the trust of users and bring about financial or personal harm. We remove content that deceives people in order to gain an unlawful financial or personal advantage, including schemes to defraud individuals or steal assets.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

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Content that depicts or promotes Ponzi, multi-level marketing, or pyramid schemes

BusinessInsider:

Data shows MLMs offer menial income to sellers. Direct Sellers Association estimates multi-level marketing companies brought in $34.9 billion in revenue in the US in 2017 from 18 million sellers — amounting to $2,000 per year for each member. A 2018 AARP survey found 73% of MLM participants lost money or made nothing.

Nearly all sellers for Young Living, an essential oils multi-level marketing company founded by Gary Young, earn just

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Enormous anime ship; Disney Parks participates in the ongoing Tiktok Ratatouille musical; Cursed photograph

















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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

"College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired From Sherwin-Williams"

Buzzfeed:
Sometime in March or April, [he] said he began assessing his TikTok account as "as a marketing opportunity for Sherwin-Williams." He created a pitch deck "to show the company how TikTok has a younger base" and "to basically develop brand awareness through TikTok."

He said he presented the pitch to his manager and a sales rep at the store, who "loved" it, and he was given a contact in the marketing department of the company's headquarters.

"I emailed [the marketing contact] about two or three times, I even reached out to him on LinkedIn. It took two months to get a response from him," [he] said. "He basically told me that there wasn't really any promotions going on so there wasn't a need to see the presentation."

However, a month later, he received a call from the "loss prevention" department about his social media account. 
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Friday, November 6, 2020

"Tea accounts" trying to catch white influencers on Tiktok mouthing the n word when dancing to viral songs

From a longer thread about Tiktokers covering their mouths:







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Monday, September 28, 2020

"People are drawn to her, but they don’t know why"

In the latest edition of Ryan Broderick's excellent newsletter, he discusses a new Tiktok star:
I had not heard of Poarch until earlier this month, which I didn’t find particularly unusual. I’m 30 years old. I have become comfortable with my increasing cultural irrelevance, doomed to spend the remainder of my years walking this rotten Earth as a living corpse, completely oblivious to what is cool and interesting. Although, in this particular instance, it might not be my fault that I’ve never heard of Bella Poarch. It looks as though she was basically invented wholesale by a digital marketing firm earlier this year.

Poarch’s big break on TikTok happened in August when she lip synched to the “M to the B” audio, which comes from the 2016 grime song “Millie B (Sophie Aspin Send)” by Millie B. The video actually rips tbh. Mille B and Sophie Aspin were two aspiring teenage grime rappers from the UK who spent a few months making diss tracks at each other — or sends — while being signed to the same dodgy marketing/talent agency. The Channel 4 documentary about the whole thing is extremely grim.

It’s an interesting song choice for Poarch to blow up with because it seems as if she’s part of her own bizarre viral marketing scheme.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Family stuck in quarantine does Survivor-style challenges to determine chores; The Disney park that relies least on social cohesion; Pandemic numbers that hint at a military base

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Outwit outplay outlast (dish duty edition) #survivor #solesurvivor #jeffprobst #fire

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Roomba balloon pop and other events in the Quarantine Olympics



@alexpresley_ Day 12 of The Quarantine Olympics! We play the roomba challenge! Last balloon standing wins! ##quarantineolympics ##roombachallenge
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@alexpresley_ Day 17 of the Quarantine Olympics. Today’s game, The Lazy Susan Challenge! ##quarantineolympics ##lazysusanchallenge ##everydayscience ##familyfun
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@alexpresley_ Day 16 of the Quarantine Olympics. This is the Quarantine Prep Challenge! Taylor takes the win ##quarantineolympics ##quarantineprepchallenge
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@alexpresley_ Quarantine Olympics day 4. The game of choice is social distancing ##6ftchallenge Need to practice being our distancing ##quarantineolympics
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@alexpresley_ Day 11 of the Quarantine Olympics. Ice cube challenge. You can only press the ice button once! ##quarantineolympics ##icecubechallenge ##keepingbusy
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@alexpresley_ Day 10 of the Quarantine Olympics we play the cash drop challenge! ##cashdropchallenge ##happyeaster ##quarantineolympics
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Monday, March 30, 2020

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