Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to cut down on the quantity of AI-made videos appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company revealed that it now features more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is in a pilot phase over the following weeks before a full-scale release. This shift comes amid a increase in content created by AI, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly a tenth of the quickest rising content creators on a competing service only show content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is considered “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically absurd or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers enjoy content produced via AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we want to provide users the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own choices,” stated a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The service shared that there are presently 1.3 billion videos on its app tagged as artificially created. Overall, over 100 mn videos are added to the service daily, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be able to reduce or increase the amount of AI-generated videos they watch by accessing the content preference setting in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the filter cover news, clothing, beauty, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its guidelines oblige users to label “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI video that is without a tag can be removed under its terms of service.
Additionally, the service will now apply an AI-generated tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This action is aimed to help prevent users from trying to bypass the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is additionally establishing a $2m awareness program for professionals and groups to develop learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will assist educational bodies dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The platform has justified its moderation strategy, following controversy over proposals to lay off a large number of safety staff in the United Kingdom. The company is set to cut hundreds of positions in its trust and safety team in London, with trade unions and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead stated that human moderation would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by filtering out the most harmful content ahead of it has to be seen by humans. TikTok reported a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by safety staff over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
