TikTok has added a brand new AI-generated sticker choice, which allows you to mix your avatar with an emoji to provide you with distinctive mixtures.

As you may see on this instance, posted by Jonah Manzano, the brand new choice allows you to mix your avatar, which it’s also possible to create within the app, with a choice of emojis.

You possibly can then use that mixed sticker within the app:

Which is an fascinating software inside TikTok’s broader integration of AI instruments, and with father or mother firm ByteDance investing billions into AI improvement, you may guess that increasingly more AI choices will likely be coming to the app very quickly.

Whereas all apps are doing one thing related, TikTok’s plans on this entrance are much less identified, as a result of it’s primarily targeted on China and constructing AI instruments for the native model of the app, known as Douyin.

However if you happen to ever wish to get an thought of the place TikTok is headed, you may look to Douyin. The app reportedly has over 766 million energetic customers, and has change into a key social and leisure platform amongst Chinese language customers.

And by way of AI options that TikTok doesn’t have (at the least to not the identical diploma) Douyin has the next:

• It additionally has a text-to-video instrument, which allows the creation of quick clips in-stream (it additionally has a separate app known as “Jimeng” for this)
• There are additionally varied AI assistants within the app, with the most recent addition being a chatbot that connects to ByteDance’s ChatGPT-like Doubao
• There’s additionally a Yelp-like AI assistant that recommends eating places and supplies meals evaluations

These are among the AI parts that aren’t obtainable on TikTok as but, which shines a lightweight on the choices that may very well be coming to TikTok quickly because it continues constructing out its AI capability.

As well as, Douyin’s additionally creating improved livestream avatars that are designed to imitate creators’ personalities and habits. TikTok has a type of AI avatars already, however this new wave of AI bots will likely be extra custom-made and aligned to every creator, enabling influencers to stream to their viewers 24/7, Douyin says.

On the identical time, Douyin can also be way more targeted on buying, and has change into a number one participant in Chinese language eCommerce. It’s additionally expanded into meals supply, which is one other space that TikTok might look to because it seeks to construct out its personal buying parts.

On that entrance, Douyin just lately started testing “Douyin Hourly Supply,” which is able to use location companies to make sure speedy deliveries to customers.

So, once more, this provides you some thought of the AI integrations which can be seemingly coming to TikTok and the opposite avenues that it may take to drive extra AI utilization, whereas additionally constructing out its present performance.

So on a broader scale, AI-generated emoji stickers are solely a small factor, however they add one other instrument to the platform’s increasing AI capability, which is ready to change into much more vital over time.

Which additionally means extra AI slop, however that’s in all probability inevitable both approach.