Martin Degeling
@mrtn3000.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Freelancer working with AI Forensics and Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Platform auditing, TikTok, Privacy
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
In the end, each video took around 5 minutes to process. Does not scale to millions very well, but I still prefer it over spending money on some data center.
The M2 is also pretty energy efficient compared to separate GPUs (maxed at 50-60 W under full load). And at the […]
In the end, each video took around 5 minutes to process. Does not scale to millions very well, but I still prefer it over spending money on some data center.
The M2 is also pretty energy efficient compared to separate GPUs (maxed at 50-60 W under full load). And at the […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
In the end, each video took around 5 minutes to process. Does not scale to millions very well, but I still prefer it over spending money on some data center.
The M2 is also pretty energy efficient compared to separate GPUs (maxed at 50-60 W under full load). And at the […]
In the end, each video took around 5 minutes to process. Does not scale to millions very well, but I still prefer it over spending money on some data center.
The M2 is also pretty energy efficient compared to separate GPUs (maxed at 50-60 W under full load). And at the […]
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
We used the music2emo (https://huggingface.co/spaces/amaai-lab/music2emo) model to get a textual description of the mood of the underlying sound and combined screenshots in collages to reduce the input to the vision-capable qwen model.
We used the music2emo (https://huggingface.co/spaces/amaai-lab/music2emo) model to get a textual description of the mood of the underlying sound and combined screenshots in collages to reduce the input to the vision-capable qwen model.
Music2emo - a Hugging Face Space by amaai-lab
Upload an audio file to analyze its emotional characteristics. The model predicts mood tags, valence (positivity), and arousal (intensity) scores.
huggingface.co
October 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
We used the music2emo (https://huggingface.co/spaces/amaai-lab/music2emo) model to get a textual description of the mood of the underlying sound and combined screenshots in collages to reduce the input to the vision-capable qwen model.
We used the music2emo (https://huggingface.co/spaces/amaai-lab/music2emo) model to get a textual description of the mood of the underlying sound and combined screenshots in collages to reduce the input to the vision-capable qwen model.
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
Our resources are limited and I favor local models over intransparent cloud services. So I build a pipeline around Ollama using a Mac with 32GB RAM and an M2 processor to first process the different channels of the posts […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Our resources are limited and I favor local models over intransparent cloud services. So I build a pipeline around Ollama using a Mac with 32GB RAM and an M2 processor to first process the different channels of the posts […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
Our resources are limited and I favor local models over intransparent cloud services. So I build a pipeline around Ollama using a Mac with 32GB RAM and an M2 processor to first process the different channels of the posts […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Our resources are limited and I favor local models over intransparent cloud services. So I build a pipeline around Ollama using a Mac with 32GB RAM and an M2 processor to first process the different channels of the posts […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
Last week at AI Forensics we published a report on what #tiktok|s For You feed looked like if you where interested in a global news event like the Nato Summit end of June.
We show how the feed favors engagement baiting and conflict […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Last week at AI Forensics we published a report on what #tiktok|s For You feed looked like if you where interested in a global news event like the Nato Summit end of June.
We show how the feed favors engagement baiting and conflict […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
[TikTok / LLM Analysis]
Last week at AI Forensics we published a report on what #tiktok|s For You feed looked like if you where interested in a global news event like the Nato Summit end of June.
We show how the feed favors engagement baiting and conflict […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Last week at AI Forensics we published a report on what #tiktok|s For You feed looked like if you where interested in a global news event like the Nato Summit end of June.
We show how the feed favors engagement baiting and conflict […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
@boesch.bsky.social
die ganze Studie beweist ja eigenltich genau das, weil sie Daten von vor 12 Jahren benutzt haben. Es ist nicht mehr alles auf den original webservern, aber anderswo archiviert.
die ganze Studie beweist ja eigenltich genau das, weil sie Daten von vor 12 Jahren benutzt haben. Es ist nicht mehr alles auf den original webservern, aber anderswo archiviert.
September 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@boesch.bsky.social
die ganze Studie beweist ja eigenltich genau das, weil sie Daten von vor 12 Jahren benutzt haben. Es ist nicht mehr alles auf den original webservern, aber anderswo archiviert.
die ganze Studie beweist ja eigenltich genau das, weil sie Daten von vor 12 Jahren benutzt haben. Es ist nicht mehr alles auf den original webservern, aber anderswo archiviert.
[Mention of Kirk incident on TikTok]
At the same time Instagram is doing way less to take videos offline that, I guess, you would not stay uncensored on any other media. If you search for kirk the first video with now more than 19M views still shows the original content but added a short […]
At the same time Instagram is doing way less to take videos offline that, I guess, you would not stay uncensored on any other media. If you search for kirk the first video with now more than 19M views still shows the original content but added a short […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
[Mention of Kirk incident on TikTok]
At the same time Instagram is doing way less to take videos offline that, I guess, you would not stay uncensored on any other media. If you search for kirk the first video with now more than 19M views still shows the original content but added a short […]
At the same time Instagram is doing way less to take videos offline that, I guess, you would not stay uncensored on any other media. If you search for kirk the first video with now more than 19M views still shows the original content but added a short […]
[Mention of Kirk incident on TikTok]
I monitored some videos that show the raw footage of the shooting yesterday on #tiktok an provided data to this article: https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-social-media/
It's worth noting that as of today TikTok (or the creators) […]
I monitored some videos that show the raw footage of the shooting yesterday on #tiktok an provided data to this article: https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-social-media/
It's worth noting that as of today TikTok (or the creators) […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
[Mention of Kirk incident on TikTok]
I monitored some videos that show the raw footage of the shooting yesterday on #tiktok an provided data to this article: https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-social-media/
It's worth noting that as of today TikTok (or the creators) […]
I monitored some videos that show the raw footage of the shooting yesterday on #tiktok an provided data to this article: https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-social-media/
It's worth noting that as of today TikTok (or the creators) […]
[Mention of Kirk incident on TikTok]
TikTok seems to be largely failing to prevent the spread of videos from the shooting for Charlie Kirk. One video has more than 13 Million views already.
People see this in their feed and seem to struggle with it.
These are […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
TikTok seems to be largely failing to prevent the spread of videos from the shooting for Charlie Kirk. One video has more than 13 Million views already.
People see this in their feed and seem to struggle with it.
These are […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
September 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
[Mention of Kirk incident on TikTok]
TikTok seems to be largely failing to prevent the spread of videos from the shooting for Charlie Kirk. One video has more than 13 Million views already.
People see this in their feed and seem to struggle with it.
These are […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
TikTok seems to be largely failing to prevent the spread of videos from the shooting for Charlie Kirk. One video has more than 13 Million views already.
People see this in their feed and seem to struggle with it.
These are […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
[Problems with YouTubes Search API]
I'm mostly complaining about TikToks API, but it seems YouTube is not much better. It's hard to use for replicable research results, researcher found: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11727
I'm mostly complaining about TikToks API, but it seems YouTube is not much better. It's hard to use for replicable research results, researcher found: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11727
August 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
[Problems with YouTubes Search API]
I'm mostly complaining about TikToks API, but it seems YouTube is not much better. It's hard to use for replicable research results, researcher found: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11727
I'm mostly complaining about TikToks API, but it seems YouTube is not much better. It's hard to use for replicable research results, researcher found: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11727
[TikTok Research API - No Update]
A month ago we showed how many videos are missing from the #tiktok Research API, rendering it useless for many purposes. https://aiforensics.org/work/tk-api
We set up a dashboard to monitor improvements. If you didn't check […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
A month ago we showed how many videos are missing from the #tiktok Research API, rendering it useless for many purposes. https://aiforensics.org/work/tk-api
We set up a dashboard to monitor improvements. If you didn't check […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
July 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
[TikTok Research API - No Update]
A month ago we showed how many videos are missing from the #tiktok Research API, rendering it useless for many purposes. https://aiforensics.org/work/tk-api
We set up a dashboard to monitor improvements. If you didn't check […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
A month ago we showed how many videos are missing from the #tiktok Research API, rendering it useless for many purposes. https://aiforensics.org/work/tk-api
We set up a dashboard to monitor improvements. If you didn't check […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
[TikTok Account Dataset published for BTW2025]
We've just published a list of 2344 #tiktok accounts from political parties and candidates: https://osf.io/6gn8x
The list is a collaborative effort of multiple researchers including University of Potsdam and IDZ Jena as well as independent […]
We've just published a list of 2344 #tiktok accounts from political parties and candidates: https://osf.io/6gn8x
The list is a collaborative effort of multiple researchers including University of Potsdam and IDZ Jena as well as independent […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
July 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
[TikTok Account Dataset published for BTW2025]
We've just published a list of 2344 #tiktok accounts from political parties and candidates: https://osf.io/6gn8x
The list is a collaborative effort of multiple researchers including University of Potsdam and IDZ Jena as well as independent […]
We've just published a list of 2344 #tiktok accounts from political parties and candidates: https://osf.io/6gn8x
The list is a collaborative effort of multiple researchers including University of Potsdam and IDZ Jena as well as independent […]
[TikTok Ad Library minor fix]
TikToks Ad Library has many problems which the European Commission is now finally investigating. And it seems to have an impact. Somebody spent 5 minutes to fix one of the annoying usability issues. The default date of the search […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
TikToks Ad Library has many problems which the European Commission is now finally investigating. And it seems to have an impact. Somebody spent 5 minutes to fix one of the annoying usability issues. The default date of the search […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
June 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
[TikTok Ad Library minor fix]
TikToks Ad Library has many problems which the European Commission is now finally investigating. And it seems to have an impact. Somebody spent 5 minutes to fix one of the annoying usability issues. The default date of the search […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
TikToks Ad Library has many problems which the European Commission is now finally investigating. And it seems to have an impact. Somebody spent 5 minutes to fix one of the annoying usability issues. The default date of the search […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
[TikTok & Data Access / Tech Policy]
I've been working with #tiktok data for some time now. But what never helped, was trying to use the data access methods they are offering. Together with other researchers we've now summarized our complaints […]
I've been working with #tiktok data for some time now. But what never helped, was trying to use the data access methods they are offering. Together with other researchers we've now summarized our complaints […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
June 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
[TikTok & Data Access / Tech Policy]
I've been working with #tiktok data for some time now. But what never helped, was trying to use the data access methods they are offering. Together with other researchers we've now summarized our complaints […]
I've been working with #tiktok data for some time now. But what never helped, was trying to use the data access methods they are offering. Together with other researchers we've now summarized our complaints […]
At AI Forensics we monitored the polish election and found a) #tiktok is still bad at labeling election related content, and b) there were several election fraud conspiracy theories that were not labeled and were seen by millions of people:
https://aiforensics.org/work/tiktok-polish-elections
https://aiforensics.org/work/tiktok-polish-elections
Tiktok's Polish Elections Labels: Only Sometimes, And Only For Some
Our investigation reveals TikTok's systematic failures in applying election information labels during Poland's 2025 Presidential Election. The platform excluded 20+ million Polish diaspora users from seeing crucial election labels, while allowing election fraud allegations and AI-generated disinformation to spread unlabeled.
aiforensics.org
June 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
At AI Forensics we monitored the polish election and found a) #tiktok is still bad at labeling election related content, and b) there were several election fraud conspiracy theories that were not labeled and were seen by millions of people:
https://aiforensics.org/work/tiktok-polish-elections
https://aiforensics.org/work/tiktok-polish-elections
@boesch.bsky.social We're working on a report that will be out soon on what is wrong with the API data!
June 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
@boesch.bsky.social We're working on a report that will be out soon on what is wrong with the API data!
I gave some comments for why the ad library is broken for this article: https://www.techpolicy.press/experts-echo-eu-concerns-over-tiktoks-ad-transparency-gaps/
Experts Echo EU Concerns Over TikTok’s Ad Transparency Gaps | TechPolicy.Press
The European Commission’s preliminary findings echo longstanding concerns from researchers about ad transparency, writes Ramsha Jahangir.
www.techpolicy.press
May 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I gave some comments for why the ad library is broken for this article: https://www.techpolicy.press/experts-echo-eu-concerns-over-tiktoks-ad-transparency-gaps/
In February 2024 our team at then SNV published a report on the #tiktok Ad Library and it's short comings: https://tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/Tik-Tok-oclock/
Today the European Commission announced that their investigations, which included an interview with us) also conclude that the ad library […]
Today the European Commission announced that their investigations, which included an interview with us) also conclude that the ad library […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In February 2024 our team at then SNV published a report on the #tiktok Ad Library and it's short comings: https://tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/Tik-Tok-oclock/
Today the European Commission announced that their investigations, which included an interview with us) also conclude that the ad library […]
Today the European Commission announced that their investigations, which included an interview with us) also conclude that the ad library […]
To their defense. It got better. After multiple tries the VCE ran a query for 100 videos in just over 80 seconds.
Imagine the actual app being that slow 🤷
Imagine the actual app being that slow 🤷
April 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
To their defense. It got better. After multiple tries the VCE ran a query for 100 videos in just over 80 seconds.
Imagine the actual app being that slow 🤷
Imagine the actual app being that slow 🤷
Trying to work with TikToks Virtual Computing Environment (VCE). Requested data on 10(!) Videos.. 20 minutes passed. still waiting.
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Trying to work with TikToks Virtual Computing Environment (VCE). Requested data on 10(!) Videos.. 20 minutes passed. still waiting.