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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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

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

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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The arrangement, outlined by the White House official in a statement Monday, seeks to ensure that the American buyers control TikTok’s recommendation software in the US following a divestiture by its Chinese parent, ByteDance Ltd. Owners of the US-based TikTok would lease a copy of the algorithm from ByteDance that Oracle would then retrain “from the ground up,” according to the official. Data from US users would be stored in a secure cloud managed by Oracle with controls established to keep out foreign adversaries, including China, the official said.
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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    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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      Probably why they went for the contract. That’s some big money headed Larry’s way.

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    “Secured” by Oracle.

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

    Use Loops instead.

    • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world
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      Loops as it currently stands SUCKS and is not a viable alternative.

    • SavageCoconut@lemmy.world
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      What website is being showed in the screenshots?

      • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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        alternativeto

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    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.

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

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    They’re going to push right-wing content.

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
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      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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    Nice. Another racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic anti-American platform.

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      You can just say “American platform”.

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

    moot point though, cause I’m never on tiktok

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

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

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

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    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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    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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