Cincinnati Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Size Matters: TikTok was originally designed to give users a quick and easy way to share short video clips within their social circle – it’s been like the Twitter of video. The company now seems interested in encroaching into YouTube’s...
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TikTok Is Testing 60-Minute Videos to Compete with YouTube – No Official Release Date Revealed
Cincinnati TikTok announced that it’s experimenting with hour-long videos. Only a handful of users have access to this feature right now, and there’s no official public release date for it. If/when this feature is released worldwide, it will put TikTok in direct competition with YouTube. In a bid to outperform its competitors, TikTok on Thursday...
How Big Dairy Took Over Your TikTok Feed—With Help from Uncle Sam
Cincinnati This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past year and a half, you may have heard a lot about butter. It started with a viral video of influencer chef Justine Doiron carefully slathering two sticks of butter directly onto a wooden cheese board, seasoning the...
TikTok is testing AI-generated search results
Cybersecurity TikTok is testing a more robust search results page, including using generative AI. The feature appears to be a new and is called “search highlights.” A snippet of AI results appear at the top of some search results pages, and clicking into the section opens a new page with the full response. In quick...
TikTok Will Now Automatically Label AI-Generated Content
Cincinnati On Thursday, TikTok announced that all AI content will be automatically labeled on the platform. A technology called Content Credentials will be used to extract the metadata of a given content and label it accordingly. TikTok is also planning to create new generative AI media literacy campaigns with MediaWise to educate people on how...
TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
Ohio TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, if a creator posts content on TikTok that was created with a service like OpenAI’s DALL·E 3, it will automatically have an “AI-generated” label attached to it to notify viewers that it...
TikTok is adding an ‘AI-generated’ label to watermarked third-party content
Cybersecurity Cybersecurity TikTok is adding an ‘AI-generated’ label to watermarked third-party content / Cybersecurity TikTok says it’s the first social media platform to support the Content Credentials metadata tags for AI-generated content. By Umar Shakir, a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15...
TikTok, ByteDance File a Lawsuit Challenging the Infamous US TikTok Ban Bill
Ohio TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have filed a lawsuit against the brand-new US law that requires the selling off of TikTok to a non-Chinese company. This law was recently introduced over rising concerns about TikTok’s ability to spy on US citizens on behalf of the Chinese government. Neither the White House nor the...
TikTok faces a potential ban in Europe, too
Cybersecurity Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: TikTok, the Chinese app that has surged in popularity in recent years, is on the verge of a critical juncture. The platform, widely favored among Gen Z for video sharing, faces a potential ban in the US,...
TikTok and Universal Music Group end feud with new agreement
Cybersecurity Universal Music Group has inked a “multi-dimensional” deal with TikTok that will see its roster of artists — which includes Taylor Swift, Drake, and Olivia Rodrigo — return to the social media platform’s one billion-plus users. UMG began pulling its music from TikTok on February 1st after the old contract expired. Notably, the deal...