How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work

Re:How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work by rsa25519 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:23AM (#24552184)

> TikTok does not have a UI tool to say "I don't like this", but other apps do. For example, you can ask Instagram to "show me fewer posts like this".

Press and hold on TikTok shows a popup for this.

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Re:How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work by mgraczyk on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:38PM (#24556626)

Thanks! I didn't know this.

But yeah I think this makes it pretty clear that TT is not doing anything qualitatively different (except possibly a massive army of human annotators). They just do a good job.

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