Mourning helps us understand TikTok\u2019s algorithm and the data security issues surrounding its ownership, offering the example of video manipulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf [scammers] have your videos, it is so easy to train a deepfake on your voice and face now,\u201d Mourning says. \u201c\u2026Instagram offers that as a service. If you’re a big Instagram person and you post a video, you might get a pop-up that says, do you want us to make this multilingual?\u201d<\/p>\n
The platform can perform a deepfake to mimic the user\u2019s voice speaking another language and change the video so their mouth matches the words spoken.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe technology is cool because it enables stuff like that,\u201d Mourning admits. \u201cBut at the same time, now a scammer\u2026 can call your grandmother and say, \u2018hey, I’m in jail.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Tetteh further discusses how data is collected and protected across the world, and how the news \u201cbubbles\u201d created by social media algorithms can allow disinformation to flourish. But Tetteh points out that social media is still in its infancy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s still like a project,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat is clearly concerning is how profit is driving a motive, clickbait being a big concern. And I think if there will be a way to resolve that, we can then genuinely say that this can be a platform for debates, a platform for conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Listen to the full TikTok episode of our Ask the Experts podcast\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Produced by Ohio University\u2019s Communications and Marketing Department, specifically by junior\u00a0audio production student Alex Karan, the Ask the Experts podcast celebrates interdisciplinary collaboration and is recorded in OHIO\u2019s podcast studio in the\u00a0Scripps College of Communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mourning helps us understand TikTok\u2019s algorithm and the data security issues surrounding its ownership, offering the example of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-548288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}