The platform is rolling out a updated setting that allows them to reduce the volume of AI-created media appearing in their streams. This step comes as the company disclosed that it now features in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread rollout. This shift aligns with a rise in AI-generated material, spurred by new video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that nearly 10% of the fastest-growing content creators on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a term for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or bizarre.
Our research shows that numerous viewers like content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we aim to give people the power to see more or less of that, based on their own preferences,” stated a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The service disclosed that there are now over a billion videos on its service identified as AI-generated. Overall, over 100 m videos are added to the app each day, making AI content a relatively small percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be in a position to reduce or increase the volume of artificial media they view by opening the content preference setting in the platform and picking “AI-generated content”. Additional categories that can already be adjusted under the tool include politics, clothing, cosmetics, and dance.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s rules oblige content makers to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the service will from now on add an artificially created tag to content made using its own AI tools, or detected by an collaborative effort for recognizing artificial media. This measure is aimed to help prevent users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is additionally launching a $2 million educational fund for experts and groups to produce learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit non-profit groups specializing in educating coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has defended its safety measures, amid controversy over proposals to lay off numerous safety staff in the UK. TikTok is expected to cut hundreds of positions in its trust and safety department in its British office, with trade unions and digital protection specialists expressing worry that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead stated that human moderation would remain essential, but automated tools can protect employees by removing the most distressing content prior to it gets reviewed by people. TikTok stated a significant reduction in disturbing and violent content handled by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to balance humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have staff as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
