He started making money on the app by offering fishing baits through TikTok Shop, selling around 92 strawberry- and sweet-corn-flavored "little bitz," for instance. "TikTok product violations are nearly enough to make me walk away," one merchant who sells children's products on TikTok Shop told BI. TikTok Shop officially launched in the US in September after months of testing and previous rollouts in other countries like the UK and Singapore. But lately, its AI detection system has run amok, Shop sellers told BI. Several TikTok Shop merchants told BI that it felt like submitting a ticket through the creator center felt like a dead end.

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Persons: Joel, livestreaming, TikTok, Sellers, Jessica Slone, Anastasia Wesselink Moellering, Etsy Organizations: Business, TikTok Shop, Singapore, Bloomberg, TikTok, Shopify Locations: Chicago