Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to cut down on the volume of AI-made videos appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the service disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The update is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a global launch. This development aligns with a surge in AI-generated material, spurred by recent content generation software.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that approximately a tenth of the fastest-growing content creators on another major platform primarily display content made by AI. A large amount of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is often illogical or bizarre.
Our research shows that numerous viewers like content made with AI tools, including computer-generated images to informative clips, and we intend to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, according to their own likes,” said a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The platform shared that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its service identified as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 million media items are added to the platform each day, making AI content a limited part of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the level of artificial media they watch by using the content preference feature in the application and picking AI-made media. Further subjects that can already be adjusted under the tool encompass news, style, aesthetics, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s rules mandate content makers to identify convincing AI-made content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of celebrities or emergencies. Any authentic-looking AI video that is without a tag can be taken down under its community policies.
Furthermore, the service will now apply an artificially created tag to content made using its own AI tools, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This action is intended to help prevent users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is furthermore launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for experts and institutions to develop informative material about ethical AI use. This program will support charitable organizations focused on educating programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has defended its safety measures, during controversy over plans to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in Britain. It is expected to eliminate a significant number of roles in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with trade unions and internet security professionals expressing worry that people are being substituted by AI moderation.
A company official explained that people-led review would remain essential, but automated tools can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content before it has to be seen by humans. TikTok announced a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
It is vital to balance staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to reduce exposure to harmful content as quickly as possible, which is where a lot of the machine support is making a difference operate efficiently.”
