Martin Degeling
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Martin Degeling
@mrtn3000.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Freelancer working with AI Forensics and Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Platform auditing, TikTok, Privacy

[bridged from https://chaos.social/@mrtn3000 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[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]
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 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]
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 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]
September 11, 2025 at 8:49 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
August 22, 2025 at 10:37 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]
July 11, 2025 at 9:56 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]
June 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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