Hacker News with Generative AI: TikTok

Nearly 90% of our AI crawler traffic is from ByteDance (haproxy.com)
This month, Fortune.com reported that TikTok’s web scraper — known as Bytespider — is aggressively sucking up content to fuel generative AI models. We noticed the same thing when looking at bot management analytics produced by HAProxy Edge — our global network that we ourselves use to serve traffic for haproxy.com. Some of the numbers we are seeing are fairly shocking, so let’s review the traffic sources and where they originate.

AI, Web Scraping, Traffic Analysis, Generative AI, TikTok

95 points by jcat123 21 days ago | 43 comments

TikTok founder becomes China's richest man (bbc.com)
The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person.

TikTok, China, Wealth, Business, Social Media

4 points by peutetre 21 days ago | 0 comments

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege (npr.org)
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.

Social Media, Teenagers, Lawsuits, TikTok, Research

9 points by fahrbach 37 days ago | 5 comments

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege (npr.org)
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.

Social Media, Teenagers, Lawsuits, TikTok, Research

7 points by ffujdefvjg 41 days ago | 1 comments

TikTok hit by over a dozen state lawsuits for allegedly harming teens (theverge.com)
Attorneys general from 14 states and districts sued TikTok for allegedly harming kids’ mental health and misleading the public about how safe its platform is.

Social Media, Lawsuits, TikTok

9 points by pseudolus 44 days ago | 1 comments

Dozen states sue TikTok over app's effect on kids' mental health (cnbc.com)

Social Media, Lawsuits, Mental Health, Children, TikTok

11 points by donsupreme 44 days ago | 0 comments

China's silence on US TikTok ban speaks volumes (channelnewsasia.com)
Beijing has been rather quiet as TikTok, the first globally successful app born from its domestic tech sector, fights for its life in the US.

China, Social Media, International Relations, Censorship, TikTok

13 points by cen4 55 days ago | 1 comments

Support for U.S. TikTok ban continues to decline (pewresearch.org)
As public support for a TikTok ban continues to decline, many U.S. adults are skeptical or unsure such a ban will happen, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 15-Aug. 4, 2024.

Social Media, Public Opinion, United States, TikTok

43 points by roncesvalles 73 days ago | 66 comments

JPMorgan Plans to Report Customers Who Exploited TikTok 'Glitch' to Authorities (wsj.com)

JPMorgan, Financial Crime, TikTok, Social Media, Legal Issues

11 points by bookofjoe 76 days ago | 5 comments

Appeals court revives TikTok 'blackout challenge' death suit (theregister.com)

Legal Cases, Social Media, TikTok, Law

13 points by gostsamo 84 days ago | 6 comments

Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now? (stuckinthescroll.com)

Social Media, TikTok, Entertainment

17 points by GavinAnderegg 96 days ago | 13 comments

TikTok suppresses anti-China content on the platform across the world (networkcontagion.us)