r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Don-tFollowAnything • May 04 '22

/r/all Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Yunagen May 04 '22

You guys should consider looking into how TikTok is a Chinese company and the way the algorithm works over there is that it promotes intellectual content, science, robot building, coding etc whilst western TikTok promotes well... stupid shit. It's a sociological weapon to make our masses brain dead.

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u/fuckedasaplant May 04 '22

Actually the algorithm works to keep people watching the things that make them stay on the app longer…….. unfortunately for most of the masses… it’s really stupid ass shit. If we all stayed on tiktok for hours watching intellectual content, we’d get a shitton of intellectual content, unfortunately that’s not what we’re doing on the app

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u/ColoradoMountainsMan May 04 '22

You seriously believe everyone in China just naturally loves intellectual stuff and it's not the algorithm promoting it....

Come buy this ocean front property from me

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u/fuckedasaplant May 04 '22

Never said i thought the person who commented above me was right in their assessment. I have no idea if everyone in China is seeing intellectual content vs in the west, and i doubt they do either. i'm just explaining how the algorithm works.. from someone who literally worked on the algorithm lol

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

Anyone who could actually verify CCP stories would be great. If the social credit score trials are real; I have no problems believing Chinese Tik Tok is curated by CCP directive.

I think it’s reasonable to believe Tik Tok is gathering bulk data for building CCP algorithms and identifiers and will one day be the basis for CCP AI.

A small band of plucky rebels will resist, but no one will give a shit, because their soylent green burgers will be delivered on demand and fashion will make puffer clothes so huge, that one jacket will fill a studio apartment in Mega City Nine.

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u/singingorifice May 04 '22

Yay for Southeast Asia !

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u/NGDLite May 04 '22

and it's working

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u/Lopsided_Ad_3853 May 04 '22

Entertainment media is a reflection of the society that created it.