Let’s get something straight: TikTok is not an AI discourse space. It’s a dopamine dispenser wrapped in a spy balloon, sprinkled with chaos glitter, and wired directly into your lizard brain.
People aren’t talking on TikTok. They’re performing. Reacting. Clout-hunting. Maybe using AI tools—but rarely to interrogate them. Most AI “content” on there is either boiled-down sci-fi fearmongering, “motivational” productivity fluff, or some guy yelling “AI just wrote this Drake verse!”
It’s like trying to hold a philosophy class inside a rave.
TikTok flattens nuance. It algorithmically amputates context. It rewards speed, spectacle, and emotional extremity—all things actual AI governance and ethical thought do not thrive on.
And here’s the real problem:
When AI conversations happen on platforms built for viral confusion, the result isn’t education—it’s mythology. Conspiracy theories, techno-optimist cults, fear-mongering panic loops… all juiced up with emoji filters and trending audio.
So no, TikTok isn’t evil. It’s just built for influence, not inquiry.
And if we let it become the front line for AI understanding, we deserve every glitchy, misinformed headline that follows.
You want to talk AI? Good. Do it in longform. Do it in public. Do it with nuance and notes and nerves.
Just don’t try to do it in 45 seconds with a ring light and a voice filter.