Oh no!
Anyway…
TikTok Shop owes its early success to small businesses, but some say they're getting fed up with the platform's lack of support
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-ai-hitting-sellers-with-barrage-violation-claims-2024-1
Comments
thorbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fisk400@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Humans go rouge, programs are broken. Stop using humanizing terms for algoritms.
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Gone rogue” just means to behave in an unexpected way - a very common occurrence when I write software.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 9 months ago
You should stop using humanizing terms for algorithms.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Humans only go rouge when exposed to too much sun.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
…or join the circus.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
shocked Pikachu
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Tiktok sells stuff now?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
yuki2501@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 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.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 10 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He started making money on the app by offering fishing baits through TikTok Shop, selling around 92 strawberry- and sweet-corn-flavored “little bitz,” for instance.
TikTok, in recent months, has been sending a flurry of violation claims to sellers that use its e-commerce platform, stating that they’ve set “spam prices” on products, inadequately displayed items during livestreams, assigned inaccurate product-listing titles, or incorrectly categorized their goods.
Some sellers have managed to slip prohibited goods like homemade foods, sex toys, and THC syrups past its moderation system, while other merchants have added knock-off products mimicking items from mainstream brands like Lululemon.
“We had an LDR (late dispatch rate) penalty put on our account right as we were hitting our peak in sales,” said Jessica Slone, founder of Bad Addiction Boutique, a merchant that has sold tens of thousands of sweatshirts on TikTok.
Amazon uses bots to flag potential violations of its policies, which can lead to sellers’ accounts being deactivated, sometimes taking business owners by surprise.
For small-business owners on TikTok, having to take time to repeatedly appeal Shop violations is a strain alongside the day-to-day work of fulfilling orders.
The original article contains 1,107 words, the summary contains 188 words. Saved 83%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
vexikron@lemmy.zip 10 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@kbin.social 10 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.
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They’re supposed to work fine in the background
The point was about the many recent stories of companies rushing to use “AI” and the chaos it caused
vexikron@lemmy.zip 10 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 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 cause 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.
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.