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by donkey-hotei 1733 days ago
Is that true? Is there a source to back this claim up?
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Rebelgecko 1733 days ago
Guidelines for how human raters manually deranked people that looked old, overweight, facially asymmetric, scarred, physically disabled, impoverished, etc: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

For automatic promoting/demoting of users based on their attractiveness, Tiktok probably uses something like SCUT-FBP5500 but because it's part of their proprietary secret sauce this hasn't been confirmed.

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rvz 1733 days ago
It is true and it was admitted by them, according to the TikTok leaks [0] and insiders. [1].

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/tiktok-insiders-say-chinese-...

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