ByteDance accused of scraping social media sites to train Al algorithm
TikTok parent company Bytedance scraped content from Instagram, Snapchat and other platforms and used them to train the algorithms of Flipagram, a TikTok predecessor. According to a Buzzfeed report , former employees and internal documents reveal Bytedance took hundreds of thousands of short-form videos, usernames, profile pictures, and profile descriptions without the knowledge of their owners or the social media platforms on which they had been posted. Two employees told Buzzfeed the scraped content was later used to train the US version of TikTok's ' For You' recommendation algorithm. Bytedance denied the allegations. System 🤖 TikTok For You recommendation algorithm Operator : ByteDance/TikTok/Flipagram Developer: ByteDance/TikTok/Flipagram Country: China Sector: Technology Purpose: Recommend content Technology: Content recommendation system Issue: Copyright; Privacy
- Date it happened
- 2022-04-01
- Organisation involved
- ByteDance
- Product, system or model
- For You
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