TikTok pulls back on an AI feature that described Charli D'Amelio as a collection of blueberries

Charli D'Amelio was compared to blueberries by an AI feature on TikTok. Gilbert Flores/Getty Images/TikTok.

TikTok is pulling back on testing an AI feature that added text summaries to videos.

The tool was prone to hallucinations, comparing Charli D'Amelio to blueberries and a dog training video to origami.

Going forward, the feature will focus on identifying products in videos, a TikTok spokesperson said.

Did TikTok just have its "glue pizza" moment ?

The company is pulling back on a new artificial intelligence feature it was testing that went haywire, adding wildly inaccurate AI-generated text summaries to videos from users like Charli D'Amelio, Shakira, and Saturday Night Live.

These "AI overviews" were designed to provide additional context for a video, recommend similar products to what's on-screen, and generally explain what was happening.…