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incidents/AIR-2020-0034

Suicide Clips Evaded TikTok Content Moderation in Coordinated Attack

Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationAdversarial evasion

Coordinated uploads allowed violating video clips to bypass TikTok's automated moderation systems and reach users. The attack resulted in the exposure of harmful content to the platform's audience.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Adversarial evasion
    Inputs crafted to make a model misclassify or miss detections (perturbations, evasion of AI-based defences).
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Enterprise deployment
products
TikTok automated moderation
incident date
20 Sep 2020
first reported
20 Sep 2020
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.80 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
content_moderation · evasion · tiktok
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2020-09-20
    Suicide Clips Evaded TikTok's Automated Moderation in Coordinated Attack
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/366

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