How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Making TikTok Tick?

Being the hot new trend for the youth and teenagers while prompting raised eyebrows from the adult section of the populace, TikTok, the video-sharing app which lets it's users create and share 15-second videos on an array of topics, has taken the digital world by storm and became the social network hub for amateur music videos. Tik Tok is an app which enables its users, largely the youth, to fulfil and satisfy their fun buried desires by creating an assortment of videos ranging from various fun challenges to dance to magic tricks to funny videos. What started as an app acclaimed and known for its lip-syncing feature, restricted to various areas of Asia, soon gave way to the merry world of dancing, gymnastics, cheerleading, parkour, and comedy, now finding its place and creating a buzz in various parts of the world. The app is known widely for its act-out memes, accompanied by music and other sound clips which get incessantly reproduced and remixed among its users. It's got a varied collection of tunes be it pop, rap, R&B, electro, and DJ tracks, which accompany its 15-second video clips, backed by a wide mixture of effects and filters.