To specially tell the government "fuck you" it was sought after because of it also being a Chinese app and it's more of a deep state kind of app really regulated by the government. It's name comes from some red notebook that dude running the country is often seen carrying.
Tiktok itself isn't pushing it the creators are. Plenty of them getting banned though as the rules are strict.
Anything owned by major companies such as meta people don't wanna be apart of. What they claim tiktok is doing they are doing worse
AI will likely register the board as chess or checkers then on the first few moves realize it's chess and begin narrowing down spaces with or without the reflections then displaying potential moves. A big issue with AI is its ability to adapt to new information.