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'Completely off the rails': TikTok is scaling back its AI summaries feature after it creates bizarre and inaccurate captions — as if TikTok wasn't bad enough for misinformation already

TikTok has been testing AI summaries for its videos
The feature is throwing up wildly inaccurate text captions
TikTok says it will now pull back on the technology

In the age of AI deepfakes, it's a good idea to treat everything you see on social media with a certain degree of skepticism, but the misinformation problem on TikTok has been made worse with some wildly inaccurate AI captions — and it's bad enough that the video platform is now scaling back this captioning technology.

As reported by Business Insider, TikTok had been testing AI-powered text summaries for videos with a limited number of users. However, after numerous mistakes and hallucinations, the technology is going to be limited to identifying products in videos, rather than fully describing the video's contents.

Those mistakes and hallucinations included describing a video of celebrity Charli D'Amelio talking to the camera as showing a...

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