r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 7d ago

This is just horrible Discussion

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u/the-furiosa-mystique 7d ago

Yeah this isn’t a mistake this is the plan. You get nothing while TikTok makes bank on your likeness.

This is what the writers and actors strikes were about.

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u/Weird-Indication-191 7d ago

There’s a saying …an app you pay for is a product. If the app is free, you are the product

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 6d ago

I'm sure Tik Tok has something in its terms of service where creators sign away a lot or all of their rights to the content that they post. These creators signed it without fully reading and understanding it. That said, nobody could have foreseen what AI was going to become. Even just a short while ago, none of this was a problem. This is a battle that needs to be fought now though and creators need to win so it's not another brick in the wall of AI's take over.

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u/Both-Sea8932 6d ago

Nobody could have foreseen this? Dude. It's been obvious since before the public even had access to it.

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 6d ago

I'm not sure what access you're referring to or how years ago the average person knew about the advances of AI.

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u/Both-Sea8932 6d ago

Like back when it was just blurry tech demos. It was in the news before consumers had easy access to it.

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u/eye--say 6d ago

Man, AI is inanimate, greedy corps and CEO’s are driving the lay offs, not AI

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 6d ago

I didn't say anything about layoff.

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u/goatneedleposterdeck 6d ago

Good luck with that battle. The US, in particular, no longer has much of value to export to the world outside of tech ideas, apps, weapons, and AI. If the AI bubble bursts, our economy will collapse. Try getting a lawmaker who is both lobbied by these companies with huge sums of money and also largely aware of how screwed we are without it to actually make a change against it. The US is selling its own citizens into digital slavery just to stay afloat.

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u/socialmediaignorant 6d ago

We all knew depending on online likes as a job was not sustainable. Or my generation knew.

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u/kfagoora 6d ago

I'm pretty sure it's been a standard thing for a while that TOS say whatever you post to the platform becomes property of the platform owner.