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TIKTOK IS SET to make a number of layoffs at its Irish operations amid a global round of job losses.
In a statement to The Journal, a TikTok spokesperson said that as the company “continues to grow and evolve,” it is “undertaking a redesign of our monetisation integrity team”.
This team is tasked with ensuring advertising quality on TikTok.
The spokesperson said this will “enable us to further enhance our integrity assurance processes”.
“Regrettably, some roles may be redundant, and our priority is supporting affected employees through this transition to minimise the impact of the changes,” added the spokesperson.
The TikTok spokesperson would not put a figure on the potential job losses.
Despite the looming layoffs, TikTok is still hiring for around 130 roles in Dublin.
These 250 job cuts made in April were announced in February, when TikTok said it expected the majority of impacted employees to remain in the company.
However, The Journal spoke to several impacted employees who had applied for other roles without success.
In one case, an employee made redundant in the April layoffs had applied for close to 20 other positions within the company.
Staff had also sat a test which was initially due to be used as a means for TikTok to assess “policy proficiency”.
It later transpired that the test formed part of the criteria used to determine redundancies.
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I wonder how many of these jobs have become redundant due to increase in use of a.i. systems
@Tom L: I asked chatgpt …and it said 251
@Tom L: Not much.
Maybe a few more traveller fight baiting videos could save the jobs
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: I’ll take on ur mudder, fudder and brudder. The full stop droped half a point on the toxic scale 6 to a 5.5
@P. V. Aglue: ill put ya in de Hobidal so i will
Not enough people in the world are making idiots of themselves obviously to keep people in jobs lol.
AI’s usurpation will be incrementally steady and quiet. One might as well sit and watch a riped apple rot. But the apple will rot, watched or not. And sooner than countless humans think.
Every time TikTok, Twitter, Facebook or any other mega Social Media entity lays off staff – especially, and in particular, those who were out and vocal against the *Fascistic* suppression of Voices for Palestine [in EU HQs, or USA] – we, yes IRELAND ….and Europe, should be snapping them up.
Every last one.
Into both Coimisiún na Meán..
…and/or the wider *pan-European* Regulatory Enforcement system for the DSA for Social Media Giants.
After all, these guys know these entities from the *inside*. All the agro-algorithms, all the methods and pathways of incitement, all the hubs and seeds of the State-sponsored Troll Farms (8820, and Russian, and AmurKKKan Trump Terrorists infecting our National Discourse and inciting riots and artificial civil unrest)
Ironically, Soon enough TikTok will be brim full of people complaining about A.I taking their jobs. If not already.
Can almost see them walk out of the office carrying boxes with the ” Oh No, Oh no, Oh no no no no no” music playing in a fabulous 45 second Tik tok
Wonder did they get a little TikTok video saying ” you’re fired”
Tik tok to be banned inUSA due to links with China.
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