Ta-ta TikTok

Well, the new TikTok Overlords (the Americans) have finally managed to sour the platform for me.

I was willing to continue to play though my views on the algorithm throttled back from 500 to 300 to 100 and finally to the 10 range. But the new AI-Remix feature, AUTOMATICALLY TURNED ON on every.single.one of my posts – bookquotes, me doing politics, silly stuff, embroidery etc. is an absolutely NO! This remix feature isn’t just giving people permission to post part of my video in a rebuttal or to duet it. Those create the SOCIAL media portion of content creation and is an understandable feature even if I don’t use it much.

The worst part is they are not saying what the AI Remix is. Guesses are below.

If you are playing over there still – To turn it off, go to the three dots on the bottom of your video and scroll about half way through the bottom list until you hit privacy settings. The third item there is AI Remix – it is automatically turned on. (And will be turned on with any future posts created too.) Every one of these (at the moment) have to be turned off individually.

I have just hit over 1,000 posts on April 14. I’ve been playing there nearly three years. My counts sometimes hit over 1,000 but mostly have been in the 10-20 range since the Overlord changeover.

Guesses for AI Remix: Official training on your face and voice by AI (with PERMISSION because you didn’t turn it off); allow others to “remix” you – your image – your words – with content either changing what you look like or what you said; Adding bits into your video – through TT add ons, etc. We have seen what people without ethics do with AI, now imagine with “official” permission in place.

I should have stopped playing over there a long time ago, since it add absolutely nothing to my brand, but I loved mixing music and words and special effects. I had so much fun! Today (4/21) was my last TT post and I’ve removed everything with my face in it.

Your mileage may vary, but I don’t have the time to turn off all the AI “sign-ups”, nor remember it going forward with each posting. I still have youtube, facebook (author page), a website and pinterest. I’m active in goodreads, bookbud, and storygraph. I guess with this social media loss I will finally have time to do a substack newsletter.