I have never seen TikTok. Please explain to me: do you somehow directly make money if your videos get sufficiently popular?
Or is the typical motivation on TikTok just general attention seeking, sharing propaganda, and making money indirectly e.g. by promoting your / someone else’s brand in your videos?
You do make money directly if your videos get popular enough (you need at least 10,000 followers for that). I think this is the smaller income source for content creators compared to brand deals, selling products or services, or whatever else.
I think the most common motivation for rationalists would be to get access to a large audience where they can share stuff about AI safety, which was the motivation behind plzdontkillus.
I agree that it would be most useful as a propaganda tool for AI Safety, and I wondered whether using it as a propaganda tool (in a wider sense of the word) is actually the typical approach. Seems like yes.
This feels different from YouTube (unless I am wrong about YouTube) where at least naively it seems like the typical approach is to try getting lots of money from ad views. At least it originally was like that.
I have never seen TikTok. Please explain to me: do you somehow directly make money if your videos get sufficiently popular?
Or is the typical motivation on TikTok just general attention seeking, sharing propaganda, and making money indirectly e.g. by promoting your / someone else’s brand in your videos?
You do make money directly if your videos get popular enough (you need at least 10,000 followers for that). I think this is the smaller income source for content creators compared to brand deals, selling products or services, or whatever else.
I think the most common motivation for rationalists would be to get access to a large audience where they can share stuff about AI safety, which was the motivation behind plzdontkillus.
Thank you for the information.
I agree that it would be most useful as a propaganda tool for AI Safety, and I wondered whether using it as a propaganda tool (in a wider sense of the word) is actually the typical approach. Seems like yes.
This feels different from YouTube (unless I am wrong about YouTube) where at least naively it seems like the typical approach is to try getting lots of money from ad views. At least it originally was like that.