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  • Their methodology did not involve computer simulations; rather, they created bot accounts on the actual TikTok mobile app, rather than studying actual users. “We used emulated devices, where we are creating accounts and automatically interfering with the TikTok algorithm through code with the sock puppet accounts,” co-author Levi Kaplan told Ars. “We’ve come up with a methodology where we get the metadata by intercepting the network traffic, and then we make a decision using an LLM. All the LLMs were validated with human responses as well.”

    Super reasonable right? Definitely not buzzeor bullshit with a healthy dose of non deterministic probability tossed in there. Reasonable right?