Conspiracy or Truth? Short Video Emotion Trends as Covert AI Vocal Training
yungcontent · x · 2026-07-30
A user proposed a 'new conspiracy theory' suggesting that the TikTok/Reels trend of saying phrases in various emotions (angry, happy, flirty) might lowkey be a massive operation to collect emotional dialect data for AI training.
Another commenter admitted they used to dismiss theories about internet trends being engineered to train AI as nonsense, but this specific example has made them a believer.
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