Description: TikTok accidentally released an internal version of its AI digital avatar tool without safeguards, allowing users to generate videos where avatars could recite harmful content, including quotes from Hitler. The tool, meant for advertisers, was accessible to personal accounts and lacked the watermark indicating AI-generated content. TikTok has since removed the tool and acknowledged the problem.
Editor Notes: Timeline notes: TikTok released TikTok Symphony on June 17, 2024. On June 21, 2024, CNN reported the problems associated with it.
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790
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2024-06-21
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Daniel Atherton
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theverge.com · 2024
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TikTok mistakenly posted a link to an internal version of its new AI digital avatar tool without guardrails, letting users create videos that say just about anything. The hiccup was first spotted by CNN and allowed the outlet to generate vi…
petapixel.com · 2024
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TikTok mistakenly released a version of its AI video generator that let avatars recite Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” on command.
Last week, TikTok announced its new tool “Symphony Digital Avatars” which…
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