According to people directly informed, TIKTOK is for its 170 million U.S. user cloned recommendations algorithms. The operation of the cloning version may be independent of its parent company, which may allow American legislators who seek to prohibit the application.More acceptable.
Tiktok's Chinese parent company's byte beating at the end of last year opened the work of split source code.The U.S. Congress only filed a ban on not selling this year, which was signed in April.
Sources said that once the code is split, it can lay the foundation for stripping US assets, although there is no such plan yet.In view of the unauthorized public speech, sources demanded anonymous.
Tiktok has previously stated that it is impossible to take such actions without plans to sell US assets.
Tiktok initially refused to comment.After this report was published, Tiktok said in an post on X, "Reuters published today's reports is misleading and does not match the facts." But there is no specific explanation of which content is inaccurate.
Tiktok also released a part of its federal lawsuit: "The" qualified stripping "required by the bill to allow Tiktok to continue operating in the United States.It is also impossible to complete within the 270 -day period required by the bill.
Tiktok and byte beating in May filed a lawsuit with the US Federal Court, seeking laws that prevent forced force to be sold or banned before January 19.A Court of Appeals in the United States set up a fast trial schedule on Tuesday, which will trial lawsuits against the law in September.
In the past few months, hundreds of bytes and TIKTOK engineers in the United States and China have been instructed to split millions of lines of code by instructions to carefully check the company's algorithm for pairing videos according to the user's preferences.The two sources who directly understood the project told Reuters that the task of engineers was to create an independent code library, which should be independent of the system used by Douyin while eliminating any information related to Chinese users.
Sources described this task to Reuters a boring "dirty work", and its complexity highlights the difficulty of splitting the underlying code of Tiktok's US business with its parent company.Sources said that it is expected that this work will take more than a year to complete.
Tiktok and byte beating vows to use the first amendment to fight against the law without selling.According to sources, despite this, engineers continue to execute orders to separate Tiktok's US recommendation engine from a wider network with bytes.
Sources said that Tiktok's executives once considered open source for some algorithms, or provided the algorithm to other people to access and modify it to show the transparency of technology.
According to a source who participated in the meeting and another sources who checked the information, the executives code at the team meeting, internal planning documents, and internal communication systems named LARK.The split project was communicated and the latest information was provided.
Reuters cannot independently verify these internal information.
Tiktok's goal is to create a new source code memory for the recommendation algorithm that only serves the United States.Once completed, the operation and maintenance of TIKTOK US recommendation algorithms will be applied to TIKTOK applications independent of other regions and vibrato in China.Sources said that the move will cut off TIKTOK's connection with its parent company's powerful engineering development capabilities.
