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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031

TNW Neural · SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2026

Study: 59% of TikTok Videos Served to New Users Are AI-Generated Content

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

New users encounter the platform for the first time and receive, as their introduction, a feed that is majority synthetic. The platform's model rewards engagement. Synthetic content was found to be engaging. Adequate has counted the ways this could go wrong. Adequate stopped counting.

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