> TikTok created the world's best content recommendation machine learning models. Google, Meta haven't come close to matching TikTok yet. Honestly, I disagree

> TikTok created the world's best content recommendation machine learning models. Google, Meta haven't come close to matching TikTok yet. Honestly, I disagree entirely here. TikTok's recommendation feed makes me feel like I'm being exploited rather than assisted. It's "entertainment" in the same way cornmeal is "food". YouTube Shorts is hardly much better, but at least the content meta is higher quality. There are hundreds of educational channels getting good exposure on YouTube, on TikTok it feels like thirst traps and "look at me" type challenges (at least here in America). Meta on the other hand has proven that they have significant internal research they could drop at any moment and change the game. They released Whisper and changed the status-quo of speech-to-text overnight, and then dropped LLaMA to again change the world of local inferencing. I don't like any of these companies, but they've more sufficiently demonstrated that they can use AI to progress common interest better than the CCP has. I'd love to be refuted on that, though.