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TikTok, a popular social media platform is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce as it leans towards AI for content control. The development comes as the subject of AI replacing humans on the job market has been topical in the past few years, although studies have also shown the technology helps businesses optimize operations. TikTok Malaysia staff suffered the most This layoff will include a significant number of staff in Malaysia. According to two sources privy to the matter, up to 700 have been terminated in Malaysia. However, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company later shed light on the matter saying less than 500 employees were affected by the layoff in Malaysia. The job cuts were first publicized by the Malaysian Reserve, a business portal on Thursday which explained most of the affected staff were within teams involved in TikTok’s content moderation operations. One of the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity (as the employees were not permitted to engage with the media) said the layoff was communicated through email late Wednesday. In an article by Reuters, TikTok confirmed the job cuts and highlighted that hundreds of employees were anticipated to be affected globally, as plans to enhance its content moderation using AI continue to gather pace. According to a PC Mag, human moderators at TikTok have never had it easy as they were reportedly paid about $1.80 an hour in 2022, which translated to around $10 a day and required to constantly review content containing “murder, suicide, pedophili[a], pornographic content, accidents, [or] cannibalism.” In 2022, an employee told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism that each employee was required to review about 900 videos a day, and watching 700 videos was regarded as “work avoidance.” Failing to meet the minimum number of videos in a month meant the…

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