Concerns are intensifying around the impact of TikTok on users, particularly children, with claims that the app is consuming their attention in a detrimental way. Recent discussions and a paper link provided on social media highlight TikTok's role in a crisis related to gender and mental illness identity among young people, and the potential for AI-generated influencers with AI-perfected faces and bodies to fuel unrealistic beauty standards and body dysmorphia. The U.S. congressional hearings on TikTok have raised fears of foreign espionage, particularly from China, and the benefits for data-centric companies and the surveillance state. There are calls for the U.S. government to shut down the app for national security reasons, with allegations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using TikTok algorithms to destabilize the Democratic Party.
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Maybe now that the CCP is using TikTok algorithms to fracture the Democratic Party instead of merely making everyone under 26 mentally ill the government can shut down the app for national security reasons? https://t.co/hjKaD7Cdis
Parents are urging TikTok to more clearly label AI-generated influencers. There are fears 'virtual influencers' who often show off AI-perfected faces and bodies could fuel unrealistic beauty standards and body dysmorphia. https://t.co/vNjJ9Mzn89
What is happening on TikTok is a crisis of unimaginable proportions. Immersive social media is a gateway to the gender & mental illness-as-identity phenomenon, especially among adolescent girls. Paper link & thread here: https://t.co/fmk2MU05SR https://t.co/znNxiU8zYV https://t.co/wasBY6PYhB
The TikTok hearings made clear that the American imagination of foreign espionage has become Chinese. Who stands to benefit? Data-hungry companies and the surveillance state. https://t.co/rY2Cq86Heo
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