Content moderators at the German branch of social media giant TikTok sounded the alarm Thursday about what they say is a plan to replace them with artificial intelligence, potentially putting platform…
  • neo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Seems like every time a business leader says, “ai is meant to augment, not replace, human decision-making” they lied. Who could have guessed!?

    • normal_user [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      26 days ago

      I have actually seen posted online here in Bulgaria that TikTok (through sub-contracts with another company) is still hiring for moderators in Sofia for a lot of languages.

      So I think its a more common case of relocating to a cheaper country, maybe?
      Or maybe they are actually reducing head-count and keeping a smaller team in Bulgaria?

      I don’t know any inside information so I can’t be 100% sure of what’s going on.