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TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨RandAlThor@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-algorithm-secured-oracle-trump-100000512.html

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  • kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oracle will operate in partnership with the US government on everything from algorithm retraining to application development and source code review, the White House official said. It wasn’t immediately clear what role the government might have in oversight of the app, its algorithm and user data.

    every article just glosses over the fact a major platform that people use to get/share information (also a lot of collected data) is about to be controlled by the US government and a few of the president’s friends. No one is talking about how terrible this will be its just "china bad’.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are no protests in LA, and we have always been at war with eurasia.

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      • chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s just Dodger’s fans [pissed|happy] about the big [win|loss].

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    • Teal@piefed.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree and even though users should be concerned I think a large amount of people using that platform already don’t care where their data goes, how it’s used or what harmful algorithms can do to a person.

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      • kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yeah which is sad really, the mainstream has unfortunately given up about it. The few of us who do are screaming into a void, it would take something apocalyptic. Thought the cambridge analytical thing and the election would make people see but money talks i guess.

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  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tiktok will be a fascist propaganda mill & needs to go the way of MySpace.

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    • SavageCoconut@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What website is being showed in the screenshots?

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      • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        alternativeto

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    • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Loops as it currently stands SUCKS and is not a viable alternative.

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    • allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Closed beta :-\

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      • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Also closed source

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  • LongboardingLad@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Secured” by Oracle.

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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably why they went for the contract. That’s some big money headed Larry’s way.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t believe oracle is still such a behemoth. I thought they dissappeared in the 2010s, but they’ve been steaming ahead doing evil things with shit tons of money this whole time.

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    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

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      • chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And Microsoft. Ain’t nobody buying SharePoint because it’s good.

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  • gi1242@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    somehow I trust bytwdance a lot more than trump backed companies…

    moot point though, cause I’m never on tiktok

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This will be illegal in the future, and dangerous not to have received the latest cultural infections.
      The police will have ways to know if you have not performed your memetic inoculation
      By flashing certain patterns at you and observing your reaction with an AI facial expression analyzer
      They will know you have not upheld your democractic duty to remain an informed citizen
      You will be sanctionned for you dereliction of duty
      and subjected to a memetic reification inoculation
      which is a kick and painless procedure where you are simply made to look at a screen for a certain period of time while restrained

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      • KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Please drink verification can.

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  • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The point of this is specifically to silence those talking about Palestinian genocide.

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    • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ding ding ding. Anyone who’s been paying attention since the beginning should know this.

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  • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re going to push right-wing content.

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    • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s already started after they installed that IDF cunt as hate speech manager. Nearly everyone of my proPalestinian /anti Israel TTs have been muted as ‘unauthorized sound.’

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  • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s crazy, now instead of staying the fuck away from a shitty Chinese social media I’ll stay the fuck away from a shitty US social media.

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it’s far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great! What could go wrong with ubiquous policing with AI group controling a media platform so powerful congress called it a weapons platform…

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice. Another racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic anti-American platform.

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    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can just say “American platform”.

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  • Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So does this affect only US Tiktok users or is it the whole global Tiktok outside of China that will be sucked up by US?

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  • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Blocked that shit on our household devices (and all our visitors and guest’s devices).

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With Twitter going down, TT was my next best option for finding niche artiste and fandoms. My algorithm on there was really good with showing me new artists and fandom creators to follow. Idk where I’m gonna go now.

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    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t you just use vpn?

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      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m already in the EU, so under the UK branch of the subsidiary. Theoretically, I would be immune to the algorithm manipulation from the US. In practice, who knows. The UK hasn’t really been pushing back against US Tech interferences.

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  • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’ll need to be licensed for each core on you phone that could run tiktok?

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does the baseband count? (of course it does!)

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wonder how it would be if they implement it in their database systems. Queries would no longer return data you want, but instead return data you might like to see.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Secured by Oracle? So it’s going to be open source? \s

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