TapTechNews October 11th news, according to the Wall Street Journal's report today, there is market news that ByteDance has laid off more than 700 employees from its Malaysian branch, because the company will focus on more extensive use of AI for content review. Most of the affected employees are engaged in content review work and received the dismissal notice via email on Wednesday night.
Regarding this matter, TikTok responded: 'We are making these changes as part of our continuous efforts to further strengthen the global operating model of content review.'
According to TapTechNews' report in August this year, TikTok has more than 40,000 reviewers globally, managing content in more than 70 languages. These content reviewers are scattered in different markets and have specific teams with an understanding of the local and legal backgrounds of different countries.
The transparency report shows that the distribution of Asian languages in the TikTok team is quite large. 8.3% of the reviewers are responsible for Indonesian, 4.7% for Vietnamese, 3.9% for Thai, 2.9% for Malay, 2.8% for Filipino and 2.3% for Japanese.
Every uploaded content will go through TikTok's automatic review technology, which uses various techniques covering visuals, audio, titles, descriptions and keywords, etc. If the system determines that the content violates the community guidelines, it will be automatically deleted.
However, in some cases, if the degree of violation is not clear, the automatic review system will pass the content to human reviewers for a second review.