That mean they gonna take down all those funny videos of the presidents trash talking each other while playing xbox?
Xanth592 on
Nobody needs to manipulate videos of Biden, he’s a train wreck all by himself without it.
hateitorleaveit on
People keep being surprised TikTok is doing things that were its entire point to begin with lol
Seagrave63 on
Well…Trump likes China so….
SoRacked on
These kids dont know what it’s like to wait an hour for an mp3 file only to hear Bill Clinton
Fermented_Butt_Juice on
Wow. I, for one, am shocked that the Chinese Communist Party would use dishonest means to try and influence American public opinion.
buddhistbulgyo on
This is one of the many reasons TikTok needs a full ban.
allfriggedup on
Nobody in this country is dumb enough to believe this kind of misinformation. /s
sextoymagic on
Foreign governments tampering with elections and pushing division. Glad it’s getting banned.
Mr_master89 on
But aren’t these on like, every social media platform? Or is it only bad because China?
Otherwise-Rope8961 on
And that’s why we need to ban that shit
myinboxisfull69 on
First day on the internet?
julienal on
It’s always so funny to hear redditors talk about Tiktok and then immediately expose all the propaganda that they’ve been consuming.
h0tel-rome0 on
China’s revenge
Telefonica46 on
TikTok doesn’t enforce its own policies.
I’ve reported so many videos that equate black people to monkeys and other racist crap and the report always comes back that the video doesn’t violate their policies.
elpool2 on
They say TikTok is “allowing” users to post these videos that violate their community guidelines, but they never say what TikTok does when notified about the videos. Do they take them down or leave them up? If the content wasn’t removed then why didn’t they provide links to any of it? And if they’ve been removed then can you really say that they are “allowing” them? Given the enormous amount of content posted to the site, of course some bad things are going to get through. Content moderation is basically impossible to do well at that scale.
Neither_Relation_678 on
Wouldn’t that be freedom of speech? We’re allowed to make fun of people, regardless of how comically satirical it is.
Fearless_Excuse_5527 on
Are they spreading Trump AI videos also or is it heavily biased against Biden?
>We identified at least **3** TikTok posts of this video with altered audio, none of which were labeled or disclosed as such.
Fuck China.
>A separate USA Today investigation found that video of Biden visiting an Allentown, Pennsylvania, business was similarly altered with profanity-filled audio and posted on **Instagram and X (formerly Twitter)** in January. While Biden did receive heckling during his visit, additional profanity was reportedly added to the video.
ok but Tiktok gets the views. So hot right now. It’s like Algorithim Journalism, it’s all about what headlines drive engagement. Just like Tiktok.
nubsauce87 on
Would pretend to be shocked, but I’m too tired…
cereal7802 on
I think a lot of comments here are misrepresenting what the article is talking about. The first paragraphs lays it out.
> Deceptively altered videos of President Joe Biden with audio added to depict him receiving profanity-filled jeers are spreading on TikTok without any labeling or disclosure, seemingly violating the platform’s policies. TikTok has a history of falling short when it comes to moderating AI-generated or deceptively altered content.
This isn’t memes orjoke calls hat are obviously fake. These are videos where Biden is giving a speech and they have added in voices from the crowd to make it sound like the audience was heckling him (or in the case of later in the article, it says adding additional heckling to make it seem worse than it was). In this case the videos are being presented as a factual account of what happened, and not being shown as a funny clip.
fall3nmartyr on
I mean it’s there to sow mistrusts division and misinformation, so it looks like nothing to me
Neoaugusto on
Why they would even need to deepfake anything in a biden speech?
Inevitable_Ad_7236 on
…
Aren’t those on every site? I remember YT Shorts with Biden edited to sound even more infirm
I just saw an Insta Reel with an AI edited Joe Rogan interview where he hypes up a guy who says he’s taking cocaine to overcome the addiction and stop the glorification of recovering addicts. I could tell it was AI edited, but 99% of the comments couldn’t. I’m normally very in touch with IG comment sarcasm, and those comments were not ironic.
EdliA on
YouTube and facebook is full of them.
SedentaryXeno on
Lmao, the Biden administration has been attacking TikTok and he’s surprised they’re not friendly???
Zargothrax on
Wait, so he wasn’t really rizzing up a level five gyatt?
DamonFields on
CCP is working hard to install Trump.
rotatingchivalry111 on
That also happens on Facebook, Insta and Twitter. What are they doing about that?
ParsleyMostly on
Well he did say he’d take it down…
Homersarmy41 on
If people don’t want TikTok to disappear in the US, they probably shouldn’t be sharing this stuff.
onlyifitwasyou on
I report scammers all the time and they do not get removed. This will not surprise anyone who knows how weird tiktok moderation is. Coming from the platform that popularized “unalive” to replace “killed” no one should be surprised.
FireFistTy on
Fb and tiktok can both get launched into the sun. And please take youtube shorts away. I’m beyond tired of “react” content and street interviews.
Independent-File-519 on
tap, this isn’t a technology site anymore
Daedelous2k on
Gamer Presidents is fun.
FinalCisoidalSolutio on
Don’t worry, young people overwhelmingly hate genocide joe with or without videos of his applesauce brain leeking out of his ears
blueberrykola on
Well he did call college students protesting genocide as anti semetic so for all I care Biden can get fucked
LordofCope on
Poo bear is mad.
reddit-MT on
“Allowing” or failed to detect? Most platforms fail to detect all kinds of things that are against policies. How exactly is TikTok supposed to know? Did they report the videos in question? Not acting on a valid report is a different standard.
No fan of TikTok, but I see these articles all the time, but it’s like the people writing them have no idea how platforms work and the limits of algorithmic detection. They mostly rely on keywords and are easily fooled. If they “turn up the dial” they end up getting too many false positives. This reminds me of fighting spam when running an email server 20 years ago.
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That mean they gonna take down all those funny videos of the presidents trash talking each other while playing xbox?
Nobody needs to manipulate videos of Biden, he’s a train wreck all by himself without it.
People keep being surprised TikTok is doing things that were its entire point to begin with lol
Well…Trump likes China so….
These kids dont know what it’s like to wait an hour for an mp3 file only to hear Bill Clinton
Wow. I, for one, am shocked that the Chinese Communist Party would use dishonest means to try and influence American public opinion.
This is one of the many reasons TikTok needs a full ban.
Nobody in this country is dumb enough to believe this kind of misinformation. /s
Foreign governments tampering with elections and pushing division. Glad it’s getting banned.
But aren’t these on like, every social media platform? Or is it only bad because China?
And that’s why we need to ban that shit
First day on the internet?
It’s always so funny to hear redditors talk about Tiktok and then immediately expose all the propaganda that they’ve been consuming.
China’s revenge
TikTok doesn’t enforce its own policies.
I’ve reported so many videos that equate black people to monkeys and other racist crap and the report always comes back that the video doesn’t violate their policies.
They say TikTok is “allowing” users to post these videos that violate their community guidelines, but they never say what TikTok does when notified about the videos. Do they take them down or leave them up? If the content wasn’t removed then why didn’t they provide links to any of it? And if they’ve been removed then can you really say that they are “allowing” them? Given the enormous amount of content posted to the site, of course some bad things are going to get through. Content moderation is basically impossible to do well at that scale.
Wouldn’t that be freedom of speech? We’re allowed to make fun of people, regardless of how comically satirical it is.
Are they spreading Trump AI videos also or is it heavily biased against Biden?
[Obviously nobody has heard on YouTube how much Joe likes Vaporeon](https://youtu.be/wSn3QqJq1wQ?si=E70xkjBcn7n1iXdU).
It’s infested with russian bots too
Ban them stat
Surprise Pikachu face
Hmm, let’s read the article:
>We identified at least **3** TikTok posts of this video with altered audio, none of which were labeled or disclosed as such.
Fuck China.
>A separate USA Today investigation found that video of Biden visiting an Allentown, Pennsylvania, business was similarly altered with profanity-filled audio and posted on **Instagram and X (formerly Twitter)** in January. While Biden did receive heckling during his visit, additional profanity was reportedly added to the video.
ok but Tiktok gets the views. So hot right now. It’s like Algorithim Journalism, it’s all about what headlines drive engagement. Just like Tiktok.
Would pretend to be shocked, but I’m too tired…
I think a lot of comments here are misrepresenting what the article is talking about. The first paragraphs lays it out.
> Deceptively altered videos of President Joe Biden with audio added to depict him receiving profanity-filled jeers are spreading on TikTok without any labeling or disclosure, seemingly violating the platform’s policies. TikTok has a history of falling short when it comes to moderating AI-generated or deceptively altered content.
This isn’t memes orjoke calls hat are obviously fake. These are videos where Biden is giving a speech and they have added in voices from the crowd to make it sound like the audience was heckling him (or in the case of later in the article, it says adding additional heckling to make it seem worse than it was). In this case the videos are being presented as a factual account of what happened, and not being shown as a funny clip.
I mean it’s there to sow mistrusts division and misinformation, so it looks like nothing to me
Why they would even need to deepfake anything in a biden speech?
…
Aren’t those on every site? I remember YT Shorts with Biden edited to sound even more infirm
I just saw an Insta Reel with an AI edited Joe Rogan interview where he hypes up a guy who says he’s taking cocaine to overcome the addiction and stop the glorification of recovering addicts. I could tell it was AI edited, but 99% of the comments couldn’t. I’m normally very in touch with IG comment sarcasm, and those comments were not ironic.
YouTube and facebook is full of them.
Lmao, the Biden administration has been attacking TikTok and he’s surprised they’re not friendly???
Wait, so he wasn’t really rizzing up a level five gyatt?
CCP is working hard to install Trump.
That also happens on Facebook, Insta and Twitter. What are they doing about that?
Well he did say he’d take it down…
If people don’t want TikTok to disappear in the US, they probably shouldn’t be sharing this stuff.
I report scammers all the time and they do not get removed. This will not surprise anyone who knows how weird tiktok moderation is. Coming from the platform that popularized “unalive” to replace “killed” no one should be surprised.
Fb and tiktok can both get launched into the sun. And please take youtube shorts away. I’m beyond tired of “react” content and street interviews.
tap, this isn’t a technology site anymore
Gamer Presidents is fun.
Don’t worry, young people overwhelmingly hate genocide joe with or without videos of his applesauce brain leeking out of his ears
Well he did call college students protesting genocide as anti semetic so for all I care Biden can get fucked
Poo bear is mad.
“Allowing” or failed to detect? Most platforms fail to detect all kinds of things that are against policies. How exactly is TikTok supposed to know? Did they report the videos in question? Not acting on a valid report is a different standard.
No fan of TikTok, but I see these articles all the time, but it’s like the people writing them have no idea how platforms work and the limits of algorithmic detection. They mostly rely on keywords and are easily fooled. If they “turn up the dial” they end up getting too many false positives. This reminds me of fighting spam when running an email server 20 years ago.
That’s weird. I haven’t seen a single one.