Due to a security blunder, TikTok unintentionally posted a link to an early draft of their new AI tool. With the help of this program, users can produce videos with animated digital avatars that communicate in any language. Sadly, the early version lacked security features, allowing users including CNN to create movies with offensive information, such as Hitler quotations and offensive comments. Although this crude version has been removed, TikTok reassures users that the finished, safe product is still scheduled for release.
Symphony Digital Avatars, TikTok’s latest advertising tool, debuted this week with an unexpected bug. Businesses can use the tool to create advertisements using digital spokesmen who are based on real actors. With AI dubbing technology, these avatars may even be programmed to utter particular lines. all within TikTok’s advertising guidelines.
CNN, however, found a security flaw. CNN discovered a temporary version of Symphony Digital Avatars that was accessible to anyone with a standard TikTok account, despite the original version only allowing access to those with business accounts. Because there were no security measures in place, anyone could make videos featuring avatars speaking potentially dangerous things.
This gave them the ability to produce movies in which the AI avatars recite offensive material, such as passages from Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” a slogan supporting white supremacist ideology, and even false information on election dates.
The tool’s final version included a watermark identifying the footage as artificial intelligence (AI), which was a vital safety feature that these videos lacked.Luckily, this unreliable version has been removed. TikTok promises customers that the official launch version, which comes with AI watermarks, will be safe and available to approved businesses only.
