Ai generated TikTok could be almost like wire jacking humans.
How many years away is this? 5? 10? I seriously doubt it'll be longer than that, considering the recent advances of autoregressive models, and the overall trajectory of ML the last decade.
It'll use hideous amounts of compute.
Imagine being able to subtly influence opinions too.
If you get a large percentage hooked on TikTok you can change and undermine democracy.
Starting to believe representative democracy and social media are incompatible.
Wait until the next edition comes out where it automatically learns the sorts of things that crack you up and starts generating them without any input from you.