{"id":17071,"date":"2025-08-22T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:29:10","slug":"hundreds-of-jobs-at-risk-in-tiktoks-uk-operations-as-company-looks-to-ai-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17071\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of jobs \u2018at risk\u2019 in TikTok\u2019s UK operations as company looks to AI \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hundreds of jobs could be at risk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tiktok\/\">TikTok\u2019s UK operation <\/a>as the company utilises <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> more widely in content moderation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The move, which will impact the trust and safety teams in the UK, is part of a wider shuffling of roles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-kingdom\/\">UK<\/a>, South Asia and South East Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The plan will see some of the work reallocated to other European sites, but TikTok did not give details on which locations this may relate to. The reorganisation is not expected to impact its Irish operations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Other trust and safety team roles, as well as operations, will remain in the UK, where TikTok currently employs 2,500 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthen our global operating model for trust and safety, which includes concentrating our operations in fewer locations globally to ensure that we maximise effectiveness and speed as we evolve this critical function for the company with the benefit of technological advancements,\u201d a spokesperson for TikTok said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite the cutbacks, TikTok is still recruiting in the UK and the company said it was on track to end the year with a larger headcount than at the beginning of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TikTok said affected employees would be able to apply for internal roles, and suitable candidates would be given priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TikTok\u2019s human-safety moderation teams are trained to spot accounts possibly being used by a child. They can then suspend the account. AI-based systems can identify information, such as keywords and in-app reports from the user community, that might point to a potentially underage account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Automated technologies can also reduce human moderators\u2019 exposure to distressing content. TikTok said there had been a 60 per cent decrease in such content viewed by moderation teams in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Automated systems currently account for more than 85 per cent of content removed from TikTok for violating community guidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TikTok\u2019s UK operations are subject to the UK\u2019s Online Safety Act, which came into force last month and requires online platforms to protect UK viewers from illegal material such as child sexual abuse and extreme pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Platforms are also required to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content. &#8211; Additional reporting: PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of jobs could be at risk in TikTok\u2019s UK operation as the company utilises artificial intelligence (AI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,82,1150],"class_list":{"0":"post-17071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-tiktok"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}