{"id":531451,"date":"2026-07-17T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/531451\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:55:12","slug":"tiktok-is-testing-an-ai-likeness-detection-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/531451\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Creators who are part of TikTok\u2019s test and want to use the tool will first have to verify their identity with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jumio.com\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a company called Jumio<\/a>. You\u2019ll have to do a real-time selfie scan and an ID check, but Kizer says that \u201cTikTok does not retain ID documents, and facial information is used only for likeness matching and to help identify potential unauthorized uses of a creator\u2019s likeness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">After verification, TikTok\u2019s system scans for AI-generated content potentially using a creator\u2019s likeness. From there, a creator can review what TikTok found and potentially report unauthorized posts and accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creators who are part of TikTok\u2019s test and want to use the tool will first have to verify&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,26250,111,43,139,69,370,145,613],"class_list":["post-531451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-creators","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}