moderation

Human moderation is essential to platforms,” he adds.

A TikTok spokesperson says the firm knows content moderation is not an easy task, and it strives to promote a caring working environment for employees.

He says his team built a rudimentary moderation tool, based on the chatbot’s tech, which managed to identify harmful content with an accuracy rate of around 90%.

Not everyone, however, is confident that AI is a silver bullet for the troubled moderation sector.

This makes it a common way of bypassing TikTok’s content moderation guidelines - including for harassment and abuse.