Seriously, on this whole TikTok thing, you absolutely nailed it by calling it localisation by design instead of a forced sale or just anything simple. And that algorithm carve-out, wow, it realy makes you rethink the whole 'single global engine' assumption for AI, doesn't it?
Thanks Rainbow Roxy. I think that’s exactly the point that gets missed when this is framed as a sale-or-ban story. What’s changed here isn’t who owns TikTok, but where control actually sits.
The algorithm carve-out matters because it quietly breaks the assumption that large platforms need a single, global intelligence layer to function. Once you accept that algorithms, training data, and governance can be separated by geography, a lot of other debates around AI, media, and platform power start to look different.
TikTok is just the first high-profile case. It’s hard to imagine it being the last.
Seriously, on this whole TikTok thing, you absolutely nailed it by calling it localisation by design instead of a forced sale or just anything simple. And that algorithm carve-out, wow, it realy makes you rethink the whole 'single global engine' assumption for AI, doesn't it?
Thanks Rainbow Roxy. I think that’s exactly the point that gets missed when this is framed as a sale-or-ban story. What’s changed here isn’t who owns TikTok, but where control actually sits.
The algorithm carve-out matters because it quietly breaks the assumption that large platforms need a single, global intelligence layer to function. Once you accept that algorithms, training data, and governance can be separated by geography, a lot of other debates around AI, media, and platform power start to look different.
TikTok is just the first high-profile case. It’s hard to imagine it being the last.