This article is part of a Fortune Special Report on Artificial Intelligence.
Andy Warhol was wrong. The pop artist famously asserted that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. But what Warhol failed to imagine back in the 1960s was TikTok, the dangerously addictive video-sharing app that today doles out global renown in 15-second increments.
With some 1.5 billion downloads worldwide—including 124 million in the U.S. as of November—TikTok is racing ahead in the battle for eyeballs...