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Yes. The users. TikTok is unique (afaik) in that every new video is shown to a sample group of real users, and its performance evaluated. If it does well in tha
by psyc 4y ago
Yes. The users. TikTok is unique (afaik) in that every new video is shown to a sample group of real users, and its performance evaluated. If it does well in that group, it's shown to a larger group. If it continues to do well, it's shown to a still larger group, etc.
- throwaway290 4y agoYou are forgetting TikTok mods tasked to shadowban from "For You" anybody they think is physically unattractive, poor, go political in livestreams, etc. (https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/ https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...) Don't have any illusions, they can easily control what goes viral if it matters to the mothership.
- unityByFreedom 4y agoYeah, keeping political content off the service must require a company-connected person to review every piece of content that reaches a certain level of exposure. I don't think they are successful at keeping off political content though, in the sense that denying political content is a political statement itself in favor of the status quo.
- throwaway290 4y agoIt's not about them making political statements, but about their moderation policy. I almost think you are responding to a wrong comment.
- sudosysgen 4y agoThey are quite unsuccessful at it. I often get very political content on my for you page - for some of my friends that's the vast majority of the content they get, and a good third of it is from either non conventionally attractive people or very obviously poor people. The manual shadowbanning fight is one they will never win.
- throwaway290 4y agoMaybe they changed the guidelines but note they were about politics in livestreams not just any video. You can review everything (including political content) with a simple delay in video discovery, live content is where it's not possible.
- vonseel 4y agoI wonder how the app determines what users should see a video. If someone post a clip playing guitar and singing for example, would it determine this is a performance, and it should show it to cohorts who have liked viewing performances in the past? Or would the AI model work more like… show (unknown type) clip to random people, identify similarities in the people who like or dislike the video based on those user’s viewing habits and then try to identify the video type based on that knowledge? I guess the second method would be very inefficient unless combined with some feature extraction and metadata / tagging from the source. Not an ML person, just a curious dev.
- sudosysgen 4y agoOne part of this is geographical - amongst the videos shown to me that are clearly testing, about half of them are clearly from near me.