TikTok Shop sellers say its AI moderation has gone rogue, doling out 'bogus' violations and freezing products without a clear explanation

Krauerking , 5 months ago

Ok but like this is barely a thing and it comes from people literally selling drugs and other illegal goods through this completely unregulated market.

And literally just to get the US regulators off their back they just dumped the still processing transactions and handed the money over to the US, as a not so subtle "please don't sue us"

All the early money was made and everyone got their piece of the pie even if it now screws over regular-ish people. Tiktok is risky business even if it made a lot of money.

MonkderZweite , 5 months ago

Tiktok sells stuff now?

Corkyskog , 5 months ago

Yeah, it's like direct to consumer ads with shop links attached. It's pretty popular, prices are okay, but it's a lot of weird shit and gimmicks, you don't actually need. There are also live feeds that sell like Pokémon cards or fresh water clams, but that's a different story.

Fisk400 , 5 months ago

Humans go rouge, programs are broken. Stop using humanizing terms for algoritms.

vexikron , 5 months ago

Lol, perhaps even: lmao.

Huge tech corps fucking up in the most predictable yet also insane ways possible never ceases to bring a smile to my face.

FaceDeer , 5 months ago

We hear about the instances where they screw up, but we don't hear about the ones where it's working just fine in the background.

vexikron , 5 months ago

The whole point of having a large, comprehensive database is that it be robust, efficient, amd reliable.

When you introduce an immature, very hyped, untested at scale, other system or software to manage and curate said database, a system that is known to fail at edge cases, and you know your database features a lot of edge cases...

... the results are fairly predictable.

Large Corporate higher up types /consistently/ overlook the valid concerns that are later proven to be correct, which are raised by people in their companies that actually understand the technology their company uses.

This happens time and time again in large corporations where it has become very clear that ego and the potential reward of more profit, outweigh the expertise of the actual people in the company familiar with the technology the company uses, and causes massive, costly debacles.

This happens because, at this point, its clear that a large number of tech ceos and management do not actually know tech or the tech industry, and still operate with the reckless abandon from the 'move fast and break things' kind of mentality that /might/ work in a start up, but do not work at all with a larger, more established and mature business, and also more generally this happens in other industries because management doesnt really understand modern technology at anything beyond a surface level.

As a person who has actually worked on different databases and more generally different roles in different parts of the tech industry, and in software related roles in other industries, for around a decade, I have seen things like this happen basically multiple times at every job I have had, though not to this scale.

In summary: I am one of the people whonis responsible for things working smoothly and you not hearing about them, and I am telling you there are many other people like me and most of them will agree that these fuck ups you do hear about happen because people paid 10 to 100 times as much as us do not listen to us.

helenslunch , 5 months ago

shocked Pikachu